Wow! I haven't posted in over a year. Well, time is up. I wrote a little blog on my phone at work the other day and I believe it is worthy of sharing.
Ok, so I'm at work and I'm supposed to be working and I'm listening to my favorite "hippy" music and thinking about all the things I want to do in life. Life passes far too quickly to not do what you're passionate about. I was taking to an older lady at work about how another lady was retiring early because she was going to be laid off because of health issues after putting in so many years. The lady was telling me about her dreams, to start an art school of sorts with her daughter, where they taught drawing, painting, and sewing. Then there was a cool twist that I won't give away, but it would give them an awesome edge. I was so impressed with the idea and asked her what was holding her back. The Risk.
It's insane how paralyzing our fears are. But I would go out on a limb and say most people don't fear death, falling, spiders, or snakes as much as they fear failure. But failure makes us stronger.
People used to say when Nick and I were engaged, if you're not fighting, then you're not talking things through enough. And I'm not sure that's accurate... but the idea follows through that if you're not failing, you're not trying enough things. We can convince kids to try new things and we coach them through learning and getting better at stuff even if they're not pros right away. But we can't convince ourselves, and no one else can either, that we need to fail at stuff as adults too. We just want to stick to the comfortable. But where is comfortable going to get us?
And honestly as I write this, almost every hippy song that comes on, is telling me to make the most of life, have no regrets, never forget about what's important, and so on it encourages my free-thinking spirit. So why not?
And on a similar tangent, we complain so much about our circumstances (worst offender right here), but what about our complaints is not in our control to some degree? And for the rest of it... I believe it would make it so much easier to get through if we had a positive attitude.
Ok, so here's my last thought. A friend told me over coffee this week that her pastor laid down some deep thoughts on her recently. Here it is, and I want to simmer on it a bit.
"Joy is waking up with the knowledge that God will act on your behalf."
If I woke up knowing and expecting to see God acting for me in great ways, what amazing things will He do for us!? Yeah, wow.
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