Baby Steps to My God-Sized Dreams

Tuesday is my designated blog day for looking at the progress I am making on my God-Sized Dream.  I didn't think I would like tying myself down;  but in fact, I think this is going to increase my accountability.  Some people might think of the dreams I listed last week as my new year's resolutions, but they are not that at all.  They are dreams of growth and fulfillment, and I may add to those dreams;  because I see things in my life I need to work on.  And I bet you thought this was a blog about creating things, or things that inspire me to create.  Well, it is.

When I read Holley Gerth's blog last week is set a spark off in me to continue what I have begun, and to spend time with God to ask Him about my dreams.  This week, I've had physical setbacks and spiritual setbacks;  however, I think seeking to follow God's will in my life is always a worthy goal.  You see, these dreams of mine are dreams that are part of me, because that is how God made me.  Also, He has been showing me what can be achieved in baby steps the whole of this past year.  Well, really longer than that--I have been involved in having God-sized dreams and walking in baby steps for many years now.

However, Holley's assignment was not to write about the progress I made in 2012, but to write about what step I took this week.  I listed 5 dreams last week:

Read the Bible through in one year.

Write a book or two or three...

Paint on one of my empty canvases, starting this month.

Organize my life better - more on that on one of my other blogs, probably.

Be a better wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend.

I have been able to work on three of the things on this list --  not perfectly, not everyday, but I'm making progress.

I'm just a busy Bee, Deborah

I'm catching up on my Bible readings, and I see improvements I can make to become more disciplined in this area of my life.  I have let my mind become so busy, I sometimes let the clutter take over and distract me from my goals;  therefore, I need to turn off the television and the computer more often.  When I was a young mother I often prayed and meditated as I did my household chores, but that is hard to do with the television blaring.  Also, I need to exercise self-control over using the computer, which I have taken to just like my son said I would.  Back in the 1990's I wasn't comfortable with the idea of using the internet, and I felt clueless when it came to doing anything technical with computers.  Now, I am doing and understanding how to do things I never thought I would get:  sometimes, I even feel a little geeky.

Organization will help every area of my life, and I have made some strides in that area this week.  For all you people that know the secret of the shiny sink, mine looks great!  And on that note, I feel complete in my report.  I am happily getting order back to the house after Christmas holidays.  Hooray!  This has been a hard time of year for me the last few years;   but this year, I feel encouraged, instead of discouraged, despite the Enemy's attempt to decimate my good cheer.  If you don't know who the Enemy is, he is kind of like the of like "the one who should not be named"  in the Harry Potter books, only worse.

Let me end with God bless you and keep you, and may His face shine upon you, and give you peace.

Here is a link to Holley Gerth's January 15, 2013 blog post and other God-Sized dreamers.