Coming into the new year it feels like things will slow down. Unknowingly, we all seem to speed up and cram everything in our schedule right before the year ends. It is also the time many of us reprioritize and refocus because we know it is exhausting.

It is almost like a sprint at the end of the year, and then at the beginning of the new year, we want to sit down and plan out life so that does not happen again. Thinking of a race, sprinting is the fastest way to get somewhere, but it is by nature unsustainable. It would be nice if we could do a long walk for the race, but the problem is we could never keep up. What if there was another way?

The Christian life is not meant to be an individual sprint or a marathon, but it is a relay race. A relay race is a sprint over a longer distance. How is that possible? Passing the baton to your teammate is the only way to sprint for long distances. The author of Hebrews says, “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1). Everyone runs, but we all have part of the track marked out for us! I hope you find your team and run your race this year!