"Dare to LIVE FULLY right where you are!"
I have looked at these words over and over and over again the past couple weeks. Sorry it's taking me this long to share them with you. I wasn't holding out on you I promise :). This quote pretty much describes my life perfectly right now and where my heart is. I'm so excited {and yes a tad bit scared too} to be walking here aniticpating the "FULLY" to happen.
I didn't plan for one of my new year's resolutions to be living FULLY in this new year. No this resolution found me - God sent it - and there is no denying it. I sometimes want to walk away from it but I can't.
I told a friend the other day, when talking about some new avenues for me that have been stirred up in my heart from God:
"This is from Him, this hope that is being stirred in me is so from Him and am I going to do like I often do when something radical breaks through to the core of my intimate heart and let it simmer for a few days like a mountain-top experience only to fall into the same abyss of...I could never...it's not for me...I have debt...I am single...people will never believe I am serious....someone will question me...is this my flesh or my heart..."
This is scary. And exciting all wrapped up into one. My usual self wants to walk away and keep things simple. It's easier so much easier. But then this other side of me doesn't want to sit down and settle...settle for the mediocre. My heart is being stirred big time. What are you being stirred about in this new year? Maybe this will stir your heart...
This quote "dare to LIVE FULLY right where you are" found its way to my heart through Ann Voskamp who I mentioned in my last post. She wrote a book called One Thousand Gifts which I'm pouring through now and created this incredible app that you must download. I got a few of my besties to do it and I challenge you to as well. Can I dare you to...to live fully that is?
In walking through my recent broken heart I found this be such a nugget of encouragement. So the first thing that is being stirred up in me is to live fully today - not looking back with regret or sorrow or questions and not looking forward and daydreaming what you hope will be or in sadness as if I've given up hoping altogether.
No, I want to press on where I am today and to do that...I first need to be thankful for everything in my life because I have SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL for.
Yes I may be single and still long for a husband, which is a journey in and of itself, but.....I have SO SO SO MUCH. So I have started counting all the things I'm thankful for everyday...I'm on 51 and am excited for the next 950 things that I have in my life to be thankful for.
Will you join me on Ann's quest to be thankful for 1000 things this year? Just 3 things per day this year?
Go!
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