Jon Acuff writes (in his book
Quitter) about
"hinge moments" in our lives that change our direction. My first hinge moment occurred back in the sixth grade when Raymond Degorge stopped me in the hall on a cold winter day and confronted me.
Raymond was a hulking sixth grader. He was not one of the popular ones nor was he on the same educational track as I was. He also was not an overly morale teenage boy. But he confronted me on how I was dressing. That day I had on shorts with stocking. (I know, I know, but this was the nineties and apparently that was the style of the moment.)
I don't remember his exact words, but he told me that
I was not like the other girls and I needed to
stop trying to act like them. I remembering feeling a tad bit
embarrassed, and a
whole lot convicted. But his words took root and impacted me. I stopped trying to dress like the other girls.
Over the years I would go back to his words and I would remember. I don't need to try to make myself like what I think others are like. I need to be who I was
created to be.
Fast forward to 2014 to a conversation with my hubby where he lamented the fact that we did not have a way to play together. We began listening to the podcast "
Ear Biscuits" by Rhett & Link where they interview interesting people from Youtube. As we listened we learned about the creative process of others and how they made their dreams into reality.
We started kicking around ways that we could work together creatively. Enter my
new hinge moment. He decided to start making
youtube videos and I decided to start a
blog. So check us out.
What's a hinge moment in your life?
