Blake Robert Templeton argues the heaviest weight you carry is not failure but knowing who you're meant to become and choosing someone smaller instead. The ache of staying stagnant outlasts the pain of growth. He urges you to abandon the lesser life and pick up your cross.
Brother, the heaviest thing you'll ever carry, it's not your failure. It's that dull pain, that relentless weight of knowing the man you were built to be and then choosing day by day to live that smaller version of you. That weight doesn't announce itself, but it grows in the silence. After another night, you choose that comfort over your call, and then in the mirror, you know that feeling. You've been carrying it. You can endure discomfort of becoming, or you can carry the permanent ache of refusing to be any hard season of growth ever will be. So lay down that lesser life, pick up your cross.
