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Purpose Driven

It’s been exactly ONE year that I have lived here in Georgia and worked for AIM. This past week I was reflecting on the last year of my life and seeing the positive, good lessons I learned and all the many ways I grew but I also looked at all the many things I did wrong and the attitudes I had with different situations that arose last year. All that really made me just thank God for how quickly He can transform us and how He protected me or blessed me when I didn’t deserve something good. (not that I ever really deserve anything good) I just thought I would share with you some positive things I learned last year in hopes that it may encourage you with goals or areas you aspire to grow in this year.

Many positive lessons came out of my ComLife experience the beginning of 2009 and I grew with Christ in several ways after also, but I’m only going to share a few that stick out. The first one is regarding resolving conflict. Not necessarily a fun one but I love that I have a better grasp on how to understand people and why certain people with certain personalities do things or act in ways they do. I feel equipped to know how to maturely handle resolving conflict in a variety of situations with a variety of people, not saying that I always get it right but I try. 🙂 Along with the understanding of people, I feel I have learned the importance of quickly resolving conflict with a person. The longer the wait and the deeper the space grows between an uncomfortable or heated situation the stronger things like hate, anger, an unwillingness to forgive and revenge creep into the situation.

Patience, something I’ve talked a lot about and I am by no means saying that I have mastered this virtue but I have learned something new about its meaning. I thought that being patient was sitting and waiting for the Lord to show up and do something in my life, through some lessons and stern chats with Him I realized that patience IS about waiting on His perfect timing and His perfect plan BUT I’m not supposed to just be content and comfortable in my daily life. I should be serving Him better, trusting Him more, pursuing Him deeper and striving to further His kingdom while I wait for the other great desires of my heart to take form. I love it! 🙂 When I finally got this revelation I was like, “Yes! I get it! I will serve you while I’m waiting!” a simple thing you might think but when I REALLY understood what He was saying and asking of me, it lifted this heavy “waiting burden” and now the deep unknown hole doesn’t seem scary because I’m not focused on that so heavily anymore, I’m just trusting my Creator. 🙂

So like I said, I have learned many awesome things this past year and I feel like I grew up a lot, being on my own and managing all the things that come with being an adult. I am looking forward to taking on this new year, breathing in every moment and savoring each sweet and undeserving blessing that the Lord gives. I pray that this blog and the things I write about inspire you to evaluate your relationship with your Creator and that my experiences or the things I am learning will challenge you to go deeper and find more purpose, more meaning and reach for that purpose driven life.

Matthew 6:33 But seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

All my love and prayers!