Growing up in the South, there are lots of words and phrases that have special meaning. They give immediate “word pictures.” Say the phrase and you have a vivid picture in your mind.
One of these is the phrase “BOGGED DOWN.”
The immediate picture in my head is of a 50′s model car on a muddy unpaved road stuck up to it’s axle in red Georgia mud.
“Bogged down” means stuck. A great car, meant for cruising the highway, but stuck where it is. A vehicle for movement not going anywhere, kinda pitiful and pathetic. Un-useful, unmoving, there in the mud. Stuck.
I keep running into people who feel that they are “bogged down” in ministry, or “bogged down” in career, or “bogged down” in family and marriage. Stuck.
And I have this amazing sense of empathy and concern that they are not living up to their God-given potential and are spending all their energy and all their time racing their engine, spinning their wheels, slinging the mud, but getting nowhere. Except maybe deeper in the “bog.”
They need help!
People who feel “bogged down” can’t get out by themselves. Somebody needs to be behind the wheel, foot on the gas giving energy from the front seat. But somebody needs to get in the back and push!
As a Christian leadership coach, learning new things, developing new skills and coaching “bogged down” people, I see amazing things happen.
Seems like such a “God-thing” when you sense people drilling down into their hearts and situations to get out of the “bog” and back on the road. Maybe a little dirtier from the experience, but moving down the highway!
Coaching helps you get unstuck and out of the “bog.”
Remember, a little help, never hurts
Great website, Glenn!