The disruption is present, BUT the journey continues.

It happened in an instant.

I was driving on the highway, focused, moving with purpose toward my destination, when a stone flew up and cracked my windscreen. The impact was sharp, sudden, and completely out of my control. I felt that familiar wave of discouragement wash over me, just for a moment.

Really? Now? This?

But here’s what I did: I kept driving.

I looked at the crack, I acknowledged it, and I kept my hands on the wheel and my eyes on the road ahead. I didn’t pull over in defeat. I didn’t turn around and go home. I pressed on to where I had planned to go and I got there.

The Stone Is Not the Destination

That cracked windscreen became one of the most powerful mirrors I’ve looked into recently because it reflected exactly what I’m navigating in life right now.

Distractions. Challenges. Things and people that haven’t worked out the way I hoped. Setbacks that crack my vision when I least expected them.

And yet… I am still moving forward.

Because here is my posture: I see you. I acknowledge you. But you will not deter me from where I am going.

That stone didn’t change my destination. It didn’t cancel my purpose. It was a disruption, not a direction.

What the Road Revealed

What surprised me most wasn’t the crack in the glass… it was what I discovered about myself in how I responded.

Resilience! Perseverance! Focussed!

Strengths I sometimes forget I carry, until something tests them. That moment on the highway reminded me: I have done hard things before. I have kept going when it made no logical sense to. I have arrived at destinations that once looked impossible from where I was standing.

And so have you.

Starve the Distractions

I want to speak directly to someone reading this who is in the middle of their own highway moment, where something has cracked your windscreen and you’re tempted to stop, turn around, or lose sight of where you were headed.

Don’t.

We have important work to do. We have a God-given purpose to fulfil. We cannot afford to let past disappointments or broken business deals pull us off course. The Apostle Paul lays out this exact mindset for us in Philippians 3:12–14 (NKJV):

“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

This is exactly where I find myself.

I am not where I want to be yet BUT I am not where I was. I refuse to be paralysed by what didn’t work, who didn’t show up, or what cracked along the way. I have work to do. I have a God-given purpose to fulfil. And I am pressing on.

Not perfectly. Not without moments of discouragement. But pressing consistently, intentionally, faithfully… toward the goal.

I encourage you to build these specific habits into your daily life:

• Acknowledge the hit. See the reality of the setback, but do not let it define your entire trip.

• Starve your distractions. Stop giving your valuable time and energy to things that pull you away from your purpose.

• Feed your focus. Keep your vision locked tightly on the goals God placed in your heart.

• Keep driving. Maintain your forward momentum, even when your view feels a little fractured.

I refuse to let past disappointments or present distractions steer me off course. I have work to do. I have a God-given purpose to fulfil, and so do you.

Keep Driving

Whatever your highway looks like today, I want to leave you with this:

The stone is not your story. Your response to it is.

You are more resilient than you realise. More persevering than you give yourself credit for. And the destination you are moving toward is worth every cracked windscreen along the way.

Keep your hands on the wheel.

Keep your eyes on the road ahead.

And keep driving.