So its a new year and we are already 11 days in.  1.11.11…creepy.  Honestly, 2010 had some remarkably beautiful moments, but definitely brought its share of heartache, frustration, confusion and days hard to believe that life could get any worse.  With all that, I’ve found myself looking for a reset button.  More accurately, looking for a way to make all things right with the things around me that are all wrong.  Coming to terms with choices completely out of my control…when I see no influence that I have in a circumstance…it leaves me feeling stuck, even when I know what needs to happen.

Seasons in the desert rarely end on New Years…but there is something about this time that gives hope to the idea of another chance, another go at things, a clean slate, fresh start…a new beginning.

No matter where we find ourselves, we all need a clean slate, a reset button.  And in the midst of that moment of grace and forgiveness, we find that its not the end of the journey…its just the start of the good news…the turning point.  Its when a story is on the brink of turning the absolutely devastaing into the absolutely amazing…the kind of story of redemption, healing, and restoration that they write books and make movies about…its when the story finds its way out of the desert, out of the valley instead of choosing to sit down and stay there. 

Its when the main characters discover what is really worth fighting for.

And like any other story…there is always room for a hero, someone willing to take the lead and start fighting for what matters most, so that someday our children and grandchildren will know how the story ends instead of just the hope of how it could have.

So what is worth fighting for?

My Jesus is worth fighting for.  The life he has called me to is worth fighting for.  My marriage is worth fighting for.  My wife, my son, my daughter, my family is worth fighting for.  My legacy, my testimony is worth fighting for.

God loves us more than leaving us the way we are.  He does not give up on us and He makes a way where there is no other way.  He offers us a clean slate.  The chapters in our story that follow depend on our response to that grace waiting to be amazing.