Dear Friend,

There was a young man who got a new washing machine. It came with all the modern features - automatic settings, fast cycles, and a digital display. On his first try, he loaded up the clothes, pressed the button, and left it to do its thing.

Thirty minutes later, he returned to a flooded laundry room.

In his excitement, he forgot one key instruction. The machine was working perfectly, but he had forgotten to connect the drain pipe. So while the machine did exactly what it was built to do, water spilt everywhere.

The problem wasn’t the machine. It was the missing piece that made everything else make sense.

Many times in life, we get busy doing.

We work hard, tick off tasks, chase goals, and run our routines.

But without clarity of purpose, without a sense of why we’re doing what we’re doing, we risk becoming like that washing machine - active, even productive, but still making a mess.

This week, take a pause. Reconnect your “drain pipe.”

What’s your why?

What matters most right now, and are your actions still aligned with that?

It’s not about slowing down. It’s about flowing in the right direction.

Have a meaningful week.

Shalom