Life is moving like a storm toward summer. It’s still very much like winter in the mountains, but change is coming. I just got back from a great mountain bike ride in the hills above the San Joaquin River. Had some good solo-time with God. All I could think about was how life changes. One minute we’re pushing toward our dreams in life: marriage, business, personal goals, or fatherhood. The next minute those dreams can get shattered.

I’ve learned to use the opportunity of a lost dream to follow a new one. The Christian life isn’t about getting stuck in past regrets and failures. Sure we learn what we can from them, but there comes a time to move forward.

Maybe that time has come for some of you guys. It might mean letting go of a business, relationship, or pursuit of something. It’s OK to let go sometimes. When our focus is on the past, we can’t see the opportunities that are right before us today.

Let God into that past failure or regret, heal you from it, and prepare you for His best. We’re moving into Spring now. Look around. The hills are green. Lakes are filling up, and new life all around us. Some of us have had hard winters in life, but I assure good things are to come.

As the seasons change, may God open that masculine heart of yours to become a man alive to His intent for your life. Heaven knows that now is a time for masculine strength like never before. Remember, you’re a man, and as the great Zig Ziggler says, “Falure is an event, not a person.”

Keep up the fight men,
Lance Tullis