dailydatewithgod

We live in a very goal driven society in the United States. I amazed at how much I am able to accomplish when I am in intentional and purposeful about what goals I work towards achieving when I create structure around accomplishing them–a plan of action.  When I am working towards a goal I am pursuing the end result that I hope will come out of the goal.  But what am I really in pursuit of?  When I stop and examine why I am driven to accomplish something or reach some sort of accolade, it is because I think that it will create a certain experience in my life–a feeling, a sense of purpose, a new meaning.  These are all worthy things, but ultimately the most rewarding experience is when I begin to cultivate that which I hope to achieve in the present moment.  All we have is this moment, this breath, this current experience.  Yes, it is good to create and work towards goals but if I am not present in the little moments along the way then I am missing out on the journey. The journey is the destination.  When I have not accomplished a goal or it didn’t work out the way I had hope, I have found that in working toward that goal I created the experience I was reaching for, and did succeeded.  It just may not look that way to the outside world.  But I don’t live out there, I live in my own heart.  The fact that I took action in pursuit of the goal itself mean that who I was being was someone who saw themselves as capable of worthy of whatever that end result would be which means I am already being who I want to be.  My prayer for us today is that we acknowledge the gifts we have been given that grant us the courage to step boldly in pursuit of our big and small dreams because that is who we are. Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen