TO INSPIRE: To fill or affect with a specified feeling or thought.
INSPIRATION: An inspiring action or influence.
Viewing these words made me think really hard on who has inspired me, not just my family or friends, but maybe someone in history and/or maybe even someone I really didn’t even know, but knew of or heard a story about. I have always wanted to be and inspirational piece in peoples lives, but what was I missing?
For starters, courage, I didn’t have the guts to be an independent force of nature, to stand out, to have people think of me as “different.”
I have many people tell me that I’m a “good friend” that I’m “compassionate” and full of “love”… but was I different? Was I the light that shined on them in the darkest of hours? Was I letting “this little light of mine” shine?
I have been viewing my relationships with my family and friends, and found that I have not been an inspiration to anyone. I haven’t stood out or even tried too. I have just gone with the flow of things, and have not really acted the way GOD would have wanted me to in many different occasions. I have not been an inspirational force when it comes down to decisions. I have not begun to inspire the ones I tell, “I am a Christian.”
I haven’t been the stranger, friend, sister, cousin, daughter, and granddaughter… that God has wanted me to be. I haven’t been the salt in their world. I haven’t shown them Christ through my actions, and haven’t shown them that un-conditional love that God wants me to show them. And I am completely BROKEN because of it… I want to be the inspiring stranger, friend, sister, cousin, and granddaughter. I want them to see God like I see him!
It’s time to step-up! Can I get an Amen! I know it’s hard to step of my comfort zone, and easy to stay in my little bubble of friends and family, that I actually tell Jesus about. But now its time to go beyond that! This has been my promise to myself these past couple of months. Now I may or may not have saved millions of people, but I have seen and noticed differences in certain people’s lives that have recently surrounded me.
I have been inspired recently, by my failures. I learned that failure is not fate; it does not equivalent your death or doom but instead brings opportunity for change. Because when your able to see your failure you know your are growing, and that in itself is a triumph. Isn’t that awesome!?
Surrounding myself with people that inspire my growth is something I’ve learned I have had to do. If you’re always around cynical, negative, pessimistic people you will become a negative, cynical, pessimistic person. Not an inspiring person, so therefore I need to constantly surround myself with people who will encourage me to grow and do my best with the Lords calling on my life!
Yes, I’m not anywhere near perfection, but I do know I will someday get there, If I continue to follow God’s will over my life.And who knows maybe someday, I can be know as an influential inspiring person to everyone I meet and know.
SO WHO WILL YOU INSPIRE!?
With all my love,
~Tati~
