I’ve been hanging out over at Tidden Tales the past few days taking part in her Love Is servies. Thanks Mia for giving me an opportunity to share something so dear to my heart . . . L-O-V-E.
I wrote earlier in the week about a challenge I’m fixing to embark on. You’d think I signed up to run a marathon or something by the anxiousness I’m feeling over this. Wondering what the challenge is? Well, I’ll try living and writing about 31 days of living with purpose.
So, dear sweet friends . . . I’m wondering what was I thinking?
Now I’m wondering what you are thinking.
What are your challenges with living with purpose?
Is being purposeful something hard to follow through with daily?
Do you struggle to know your purpose?
Do you need ideas to live with purpose?
What does love have to do with it?
Do you even care about purpose?
Surely, you have questions too! Pleeeeeaaassse, tell me you do.
I’d love to hear them.
Living with purpose to me is living in God's will and not my own. One challenge to that and certainly not the only one, is that; though my heart and my head know this- not everyone around me knows this about me or particularly cares. I am a wife, a mom, and I have a job that feels like a mission…I love my life here on Earth and am blessed. So you can imagine with all the responsibilities that I'm already blessed to have, when God asks for obedience in an uncharted territory my heart wants to respond with joy, but my mind goes to all the hurdles first. I love that I have a relationship with Jesus and that he already knows that about me. I've learned that it takes faith steps to move forward and that each step is richly rewarded. As my hesitations diminish my faith grows; and as my faith grows my hesitations diminish. So my question is have you experienced that and how do you balance your life in a way that honors God and still serves your family & your church?
Carolyn,
Those are awesome points. And balance is definitely something we will need to talk about these 31 days. It. is. hard…..Blessings friend.
Challenge…..The real challenge is to rely on God when our pretty world comes crashing down and we find our self underneath the rubble. Praying to God and talking to Him is easy because I know that He is my only hope but handing it over seems impossible. I have learned that a true crisis is one in which you never bother talking to your friends about because you know there is no comfort to be had.
Staying focused on God is another challenge during tough times. A most daunting task when one is overwhelmed.
Truthfully, most everything seems a challenge during a crisis.
Karen – Challenges of life can definitely be purpose de-railers, if we let them. They also can be opportunity for our purpose to shine through. Great thoughts and we'll certainly chat about this one here. Blessings.