A New Day
Hello Friends,
So many words could be used to describe my life right now ...but I'm not entirely sure where to start. My focus is kind of clouded while I type these words because so much has happened and so much has not. So I suppose I'll use a phrase one of my kind-hearted friends used to inspire me not too long ago. She said, "Do what makes you come alive." It's a quote from one of her favorite books, "Wild at Heart."
I tend to agree with her.
See, my life right now is in the search of finding what makes me come alive. Now, I'm not talking about the "BIG" question of what makes me come alive because, praise God, I have found the answer to that question. Rather, I'm talking about the smaller question, the focus of the bigger question if you will. I believe there is something specifically designed for me to do in every stage of my life. Call it a vocation. And I'm in the search of finding the 'vocation' that God has planned for me right now.
So what DOES make me come alive? ...I take a look at my options and my heart has a resounding answer. Yet, there seems to be so many road-blocks in the way of actually taking action. There are fears. There are risks. And who knows what else. But the one thing I'm confident of is that it IS my passion. And passion, ladies and gentlemen, is the greatest gift of God in my book. Without passion you have no purpose. Without passion you have no direction. Without passion life becomes mundane, mediocre and routine. I want nothing to do with those things. Though the hardest part is actually taking the risk as opposed to taking the easy. Unfortunately the easy will lead to the mundane and the risk, though scary, leads to what makes you come alive.
So my challenge to myself is to learn to let go and trust. I have a serious trust issue. I need and want to believe and that's where I am right now. I'm making a decision to believe.
I know this is very obscure and random, probably not making and sense what so ever. BUT, I'm typing anyway. Call it my therapy. So there she be.
So many words could be used to describe my life right now ...but I'm not entirely sure where to start. My focus is kind of clouded while I type these words because so much has happened and so much has not. So I suppose I'll use a phrase one of my kind-hearted friends used to inspire me not too long ago. She said, "Do what makes you come alive." It's a quote from one of her favorite books, "Wild at Heart."
I tend to agree with her.
See, my life right now is in the search of finding what makes me come alive. Now, I'm not talking about the "BIG" question of what makes me come alive because, praise God, I have found the answer to that question. Rather, I'm talking about the smaller question, the focus of the bigger question if you will. I believe there is something specifically designed for me to do in every stage of my life. Call it a vocation. And I'm in the search of finding the 'vocation' that God has planned for me right now.
So what DOES make me come alive? ...I take a look at my options and my heart has a resounding answer. Yet, there seems to be so many road-blocks in the way of actually taking action. There are fears. There are risks. And who knows what else. But the one thing I'm confident of is that it IS my passion. And passion, ladies and gentlemen, is the greatest gift of God in my book. Without passion you have no purpose. Without passion you have no direction. Without passion life becomes mundane, mediocre and routine. I want nothing to do with those things. Though the hardest part is actually taking the risk as opposed to taking the easy. Unfortunately the easy will lead to the mundane and the risk, though scary, leads to what makes you come alive.
So my challenge to myself is to learn to let go and trust. I have a serious trust issue. I need and want to believe and that's where I am right now. I'm making a decision to believe.
I know this is very obscure and random, probably not making and sense what so ever. BUT, I'm typing anyway. Call it my therapy. So there she be.
posted by a.rod at 4:28 PM
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