I hope you all have enjoyed the wonderful weather this week, it has been the greatest blessing to be able to go outside where it is warm and enjoy the outdoors around us. How do you think you are doing lately in the spirituality department? Are you challenging yourself? If you are I hope that you can continue on in your growth and push yourself to try harder each and every day. And if you haven't been challenging yourself, I am here to hopefully encourage you to do so. I'm usually the girl who decides to push myself in small ways. To make sure I keep up on my Bible reading and to pray throughout my day. But I feel like those are small acts and that I'm not pushing myself as much as I could. So I decided to start waking up earlier and devote one early morning of the week to a Bible study. And like all dedications of my time to the Lord I have not regretted it once, nor will I ever regret taking that time to grow spiritually. I'm now reading a book on spiritual growth and leadership, and memorizing verses (which I am notoriously bad at). So what has all this taught me? I have not REALLY pushed myself before. I have not fully dedicated myself to trying something new to make me more Christ-like. I have never memorized verses and not put it off till the last minute or complained about it. But it took a change of heart, and a want for internal change. So I challenge you all to look inside your hearts, and ask the Lord what he wants you to dedicate your free time to? Maybe less time on social media and more prayer time. Maybe try something new like picking up a spiritual growth book and actually finishing it. The most important part of it all, is that we need to have a desire to change. We need to stop the lazy, procrastinator, and self-centered cycle. These ignorant actions don't serve a greater purpose, nor will they benefit us whatsoever. So let's decide to try something new and to make a change. To open up our hearts and give our minds and souls to the Lord. And most importantly give our lives. Because from the outside do we really look like Christ serving servants? I really don't think so, we need to try and try some more. All of these things will make up our Purpose Driven Lives.
On a side side side note: I may have experienced a wonderful blessing today. One that I wish I could shout out to the world. Honestly the Lord delivers, in all sorts of ways. If you know me, then you know I don't really passionately care about too many things. There are things I enjoy but most of the time I try to keep a calm, casual, not too invested vibe. It's not because I do not love the things of this world, I just don't like to get too attached. Because I know I so easily could, and I need to daily remind myself to keep my eyes on something greater. But I can't help but love Taylor Swift. And respect the image she has created for herself. For months now I have been trying to get a hold of her concert tickets. With countless trail and error, I had lost a lot of the hope I held just a few months ago. I tried for the pre-sale tickets and missed out, I tried for regular seats and could get them fast enough, then those who bought the tickets were selling them for ridiculous prices. I just wanted this one thing and I was frustrated. So when I found out I could sign up for Taylor Swift pit tickets as part of her fan club, I was on that like nobodies business. And I waited for the email to come where I was selected to buy the pit tickets. Well today the email came and after an hour of my Internet shutting down and down again. I managed to buy the tickets. The Lord has blessed me even in the most earthly ways. Because if I had bought any other tickets I wouldn't have the privilege to stand right in the stage area, the closest one can get without actually being Taylor Swift herself. I don't get excited about many things, but this I am more than excited for. So here's to the 4 month wait till I see Taylor Swift, practically face to face. I will most definitely cry. But I can wait patiently because summer hasn't started and I really don't want to think about it ending quite yet.
As excited as I feel, I hope you can find the same excitement, in your daily life and in your spiritual. And I most definitely hope the two coincide. For now I leave you with my personal favorite pump up jam of the moment!
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