New Goals

Coming into this new part of my life means reevaluating my goals and decisions, and so here are my new goals.

1) Put God first. (Take everything to him before anyone else.)

2) Continue my education constantly, learn something new every day.

3) Love and be loved. (Surround myself with people who love and encourage me and allow me to love and encourage them.)

4) Live a healthy lifestyle. (If I continue to lose weight that’s fine if not that’s fine too.)

5) Build a strong support system.

6) Keep my eyes on my goals. (Don’t let things distract me from doing what needs to be done.)

7) Keep adventure in my life. (Don’t allow myself to get so bogged down with work and school that I forget to experience life.)

8) Save money. (This is something I’m constantly struggling with.)

9) Reduce the amount of belongings I have. (There is so much more to life that what I own.)

10) Take time for myself to relax and have fun.

Discovery

“It is God's privilege to conceal things and the king's privilege to discover them.” Prov. 25:2 (NLT)

*creak* I slowly open the door with these words above them and step through to whatever lies on the other side. The room is dark except for the tiniest bit of light which is slowly diminishing as the door shuts behind me. What this room contains I do not know. I can hear birds chirping, insects buzzing, the sound of rushing winds and crashing waves but where I am or where I go I do not know for it is dark or I am blind. So I have set out to discover everything I can about this world I live in. I want to converse with trees and intimately know the workings of even the tiniest insect. I have set out to discover that which God has concealed in nature all around us. I have a feeling I may be in this room a long time.

Doors

I have been meaning to write this for awhile and I’m sorry that I have not.

Life is a journey this is my first and foremost belief above all others about this topic. If we do not learn and grow constantly then we do not truly live. Therefore the past few months I have been studying what I should do with this gift God has given me, and even what exactly that gift is. Who am I? What drives me? What am I called to do with the rest of my life? Because life is a journey the answers to these questions change, frequently. They grow and develop as we do. At each stage of our life the answers may be different and so we must change course with them. We must open new doors and see what lies within and then decide which door most matches with our answers to these question and go through it to experience fully whatever lies there.

Part of our problem is that we don’t want to know what our doors contain. We are scared. So we open the first door and go in assuming that the other doors could not contain anything better. Or we look in our friend’s, our family’s, anyone’s doors and bemoan the fact that our doors could not possible hold the wonders contained in their doors. We couldn’t possibly explore the existing and maybe even create a new door if need be. A new door requires tools that maybe we don’t have, or knowledge we lack. This is where friends and family are important maybe your friend has a hacksaw or your Dad may have a level. In building new ways around a problem together you all grow as individuals and as a team. Much pity I have for those who live in too much fear to overcome and open those doors to explore. Do they really think that God who loves and created them would not put in some beautiful doors? Yes some doors are hard and scary but those are usually the results our mistakes and God has put behind each one the most beautiful door of all, grace. So I challenge you to open your doors and go through. Even if you pick the wrong one that beautiful door will be there somewhere behind waiting for you.