You know, we all want to DO so much. Myself included! We want to save the earth, save each other, save the animals and the hungry. We have all of this passion pent up inside and that ROCKS! It's a good thing to have passion, but it is more important to understand where that passion is coming from.
Proverbs 16:2-3
All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord. Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.
At work this past week, a girl spoke and said that she wants us to make a list of things we can do to get closer to our dreams that seem impossible or to even just write down those dreams.
Ever since, I have had this feeling, and I can't kick it, that I am going to make an impact. Somewhere, sometime, to someone. I want to change the world and I know 100% without a doubt that I cannot do it. Alone, that is. I cannot change the world by myself. I cannot change the world with my amazing family alone. I can only change things with the power that comes from my everlasting and ever powerful God.
The things I want to do with my life are things that I have no IDEA how to start. It scares the living daylights out of me to even talk about them. So I am making a list, right now, as a starting point. I am praying boldly (and I hope you all pray with me) to change lives by doing exactly what the Lord wants me to do.
I pray that my entire family knows and loves the Lord more than anything else in the world. I won't stop praying until everyone I love, knows the love of the Lord and experiences his greatness.
I want to travel the world and share the gospel and give people hope that you can ONLY receive from God.
I want to teach kids that they can have just as much faith at their age, that I have at mine and more.
I want there to be less hungry people, sad people, sick people and lost people.
I hate the fact that human trafficking cannot be stopped.
The list goes on and on and it only gets more impossible from here.
These are all things that I am so passionate about, but have no idea how to get to. The only thing I know how to do is to start praying boldly. I am praying, now publicly on the internet, that I see exactly what I am supposed to be doing and that I can do it. I pray that I have the courage to accept whatever craziness the Lord throws at me and the patience to get through it. I pray for a specific purpose towards something that makes a big difference.
I'm writing all of this down, out in the open, not to say I have it together but that exact opposite. To show that I have NO idea where I am going, or what I am doing, but that I want to do something big.
I hope to be an encouragement to someone, that it's okay not to know what you're doing with your life and I hope to encourage you to take a step and tell someone your dream.
As of right now, I am just a broke college student with a heart that cares deeply for so many things.
I believe that the Lord will use my skills and passions to change lives.
A final prayer for what comes of my faith.
