I am so humbled by how the decision of a small town farmer in south central Kansas had the power to change the entire trajectory of my life.
I call it miracle math. It’s simple: every person you love, everything you’ve become, sits on top of a stack of decisions that almost didn’t happen. Not big, dramatic decisions. Small ones. The kind that feel meaningless in the moment and only reveal their weight decades later, when you realize how easily they could have gone the other way.
Here’s what I mean.
I met my wife on a soccer field when I was five years old in Clearwater, KS. We went K-12 together, but we almost never met. Clearwater is a small town outside of Wichita, home to about 3000 people and over 10,000 acres of wheat fields. According to my dad, they ended up moving out there because my mom found an old country house she wanted to make an offer on. He didn’t want to move to Clearwater or the country, but he didn’t want to tell her no either. So he told the real estate agent to make a ridiculously low offer, one he was sure the seller would reject. They would make the offer, get turned down, and move somewhere else.
Except the seller took it.
My dad told me he was shocked, and at that point, he was committed.
If that farmer had said no, they don’t move to Clearwater. I’m not on that soccer field at five years old. I never meet my wife.
Life is filled with moments that can alter the future in a multitude of ways. These seemingly insignificant inconsequential decisions can and will make all the difference between meeting the love of your life or being born at all.
Someone turns left instead of right. None of it feels significant at the time. All of it is the whole reason you’re here.
Maybe this life isn’t as random as we think it is.
Tonight, ask someone how they ended up where they are, your spouse, your parents, an old friend. Somewhere in that story is a decision that almost didn’t happen. That’s your math too.
live freed,
Jordan
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