Why would this be something I’d want to do? Who will really be interested? – Is this really worth considering? – ‘Start at the very beginning, it’s a very good place to start’ – ‘How do you to solve a problem like Maria? How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?’ - Are you crazy? – Why do ‘Sound of Music’ songs keep going through my head? – Is this called flight of ideas or what???
Ok, Ok – here I begin and honestly ALL of those things noted
above have gone through my head and my thoughts have been all over the place
for starting a blog. Thinking ‘yeah that might be fun’ to ‘your crazy girl’. I
have had more than one person say to me ‘You should write a blog’ – ‘Ha, yeah
right’ is what my mind responds even if my mouth doesn’t say it out loud.
The road to learning and experiencing new things is one I’ve
started on in the past 10 years and starting another new year is one that
reminds me that being inspired is exactly where I’ve found myself in those last
10 years.
Life – Living Inspired.
To be inspired:
of extraordinary
quality, as if arising from some external creative impulse or
(of air or another
substance) that is breathed in.
Extraordinary quality, external creative impulse,
‘breathing’ something in (or just having it become something you ‘take in’ to
your being)
Well God has lead me in directions that pulled on my heart
strings, on my interests, on my life – in ways I never could have imagined. And
as someone once again recently said to me ‘You should write a blog’ I thought
about it, tried to dismiss the idea. Yet it kept coming back to me.
A recent devotional reading with words from Bob Goff: ‘We
can’t win the game from the bleachers. We’ll never succeed unless we get out on
the field and go for it. Whether it’s starting a business, putting music to
your poems, or braving rejection from the girl who makes you lose your words,
you won’t get the gold if you’re too scared to work the mine. God created you
with unique gifts and ignited the passions he put in your heart for a reason –
don’t let fear steal your opportunities and leave you on the sidelines wishing
you’d tried. Do what you believe you are created to do. Is it possible it won’t
work? You bet. Fail trying, don’t fail watching,’ Bob ends each devotional with
a question. The question following these words is ‘What do you need to hear or
believe from God in order to find the courage to step out on a big dream you
have?’
That’s a really good question. I had a very dear friend (she
has gone to meet Jesus) that always asked me the hard questions, the questions
with no easy answers. I never took it personally or negatively when she asked
me those hard questions. The questions made me dig deep, think, grow. So…What
do I need to hear or believe from God in order to find the courage to step out
on a big dream I have?
I believe God puts things, events, people into our lives to
help us grow, stretch, learn, understand, challenge us, ultimately to draw us
to Truth. Living inspired means to me that I am learning from God, from others
around me, from the situations that I encounter that life has extraordinary
quality to be experienced, to be lived, to be breathed in. Many, many things
inspire me His Word and Teaching, Natural Living and Wellness, Finding value to
that which surrounds me – people and things, the world He’s blessed us with, oh
the list goes on…..
What will fill the ‘pages’ of this blog? Another good
question. It might be a devotional that touches my heart. Maybe a new recipe
that turned out great or didn’t turn out great. Or my latest adventure and
learning experience – which could be a huge variety of things!!
Dear God – I seek to be inspired by You and all that you put
before me and within me. May my heart be teachable to find extraordinary
quality, a creative impulse and to ‘take in’ to my being all that You give me
life for. Teach me to be inspiring to others. Amen
