Lines in the Sand

So often I try to filter my thoughts and words in this blog, but I am ready for that filter to be off. I don’t know if anyone reads these thoughts or words, but that doesn’t matter. I am realizing more and more that I can’t spend my life trying so hard to be like everybody else - every other blogger, every other writer I know. If I keep trying to write & think like everyone else, well, that would just be pretty sad. :-( Pretty soon I will be old & gray no one, not even I, would have ever known who I am.

First, I have to believe I am someone worth knowing. That value comes from God alone. Spend time with Him, and He lets us know that we're enjoyable, precious, and His prized treasure! :-) 

I want to be who I am, and just see what happens. The world doesn’t need another this person or that person, the world needs me to be me. Daddy needs me to be me. He doesn’t want me to be someone else. He likes me just the way I am because he made me just the way I am, and He enjoys me just the way I am and he has a purpose of me just the way I am. 

I have found that the more you get to know Daddy, the more you get to know who you really are. It’s like all your talents and gifts and skills that you always felt inside of you will go from shining through a little tiny light bulb to a big huge stadium of lights. 

Its time for drawing lines in the sand and decide that....

I am going to live my life being who I am and following in the footsteps of Jesus. I will tread where no one has gone before.

I will live my life free, not bound, in love, not fear, in hope, not disappointment, in joy, not depression, in purpose, not confusion, in peace, not angst, and in promise, not uncertainty, and forgiveness, not bitterness.

I am going to live my life to please God & love Him alone – trusting Him with every decision and every move that I make, and not depend on the world to hold me up, but only His hands to hold me in place…

These are the lines I have drawn in the sand. I have chosen to be who God has also chosen to be.

He chose me to radically change the world with His power & His love.

I want to live my life loving and be loved by God, discovering who He made me to be, and why He loves me so much. Could life be that simple? I say, yes indeed. It's worth a try... and so far, has left me extremely satisfied. :-) 

Now its time to see what happens....