When Coach Yelled: trading places, part 4 of 5.

Q. Whom would you trade places with for a day?

A.  Nobody. Why would I want somebody else’s life?

 —Barbara Corcoran, INC. magazine, April 2013.

Our track coach seldom got angry and hardly ever yelled.

But there was this one time.

Long story short, I can still hear his voice, “Stay in your own lane!”

If he’d been standing there, St. Paul would have nudged Coach with his elbow and said, “Same problem with my team, too.”

And he’s right.

We glance over to see how another runner in this thing called Life else is doing.  Just a quick glance, no big deal, right?

Then we turn our heads for a closer look.  Next thing we know, we’re in the same lane with that other person.

Now it’s crowded in this lane.

Worse, now we’ve abandoned our own space.

We’ve quit running our own race.

Looking back over his life, St. Paul wrote about a better way.   In 2nd Timothy 4:7 he said, “I have finished the race set before me.”  He stayed in his own lane.

Whose race are you running today, and in whose lane?