I can’t believe that it is 2010!! More amazingly, I can believe how quickly 2009 FLEW by! The older I get the faster time seems to tick and it begs the question: Are you going to make this year count…or are you going to let it be another year that simply slips by with good intentions?
As we begin a new year and a new decade, I encourage everyone to DREAM. We don’t do that enough in our lives anymore. We get caught up in work schedules, responsibilities, bills, etc and we don’t allow ourselves to HOPE and DREAM and TRUST in something bigger than the meaningless everyday askings of the world. Remember what it was like to dream as a child? Think about yours passions-the things in your life that truly make your heart happy-and know that God put those in you for a reason. We all have a unique place in the Kingdom. We all have God-given talents, skills, and desires and shouldn’t feel that we have to ignore them. Maybe this year will be the year you will listen to the whisper inside. Maybe this year will be the year that you will allow the dream to become reality.
Do you have a love of working with your hands and seeing the results of your hard work? Volunteer this year to help build a house for a needy family.
Do you have a heart overflowing with love, encouragement, and compassion for others? Mentor a child that may not otherwise know what it means to have people that care.
Is your whisper inside calling you to missions? Go on a crazy adventure called the WORLD RACE!!! Abandon your inhibitions and hold on for the ride. Interested? Anxious? You could be serving God throughout the world as early as June. Check out the June Race route……there’s still time to apply!!
http://updates.theworldrace.org/?filename=june-2010-world-race-route
This year, my hope is that we all stop trying to quiet the voice inside. God lives in us and that voice may very well be the voice of your Creator calling you to the life you were meant to live. I hope that we all make 2010 a year in which we break down walls, stop making excuses,follow our passions, and make our lives count. Whatever your whisper, let 2010 be the year that you allow it to ROAR!!!
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
-John 10:27
