Journey Day 213

Reading is certainly one of my joys in life. After finishing "Crazy Love" I started "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" and I finished it early this morning. It was AMAZING! The question it asks is "What do you want your story to be?" Basically what meaning is your life going to have? Are you going to just wake up every morning and go through the motions without really doing any kind of good? Without having any real plot to your life? A good story has action, the character goes on a journey, and there is always an inciting action. Something that pushes the main character so they start their journey. For me my first inciting action was a breakup, it got my relationship with God really started and my dependance on God begun... and now my next inciting incidents... reading Crazy Love and A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. I have to have a goal for my life, for my journey.... my story. Where do I want my life to go? And what steps can I take to get there? I made a list of things I want to accomplish... the direction I want my story to go:
- success for the Muse Eight-Thirty
- developing a bond with the community downtown through outreach
- to grow closer to God everyday
- someday get married and raise a family
- to excel in my classes
- to give extravagantly
- to lead at least one person to Christ this year
The plot of my journey:
- work hard promoting the Muse through advertising, word of mouth, and doing the necessary leg work.
- start what I'm calling project lunch.... once a week I will make bagged lunches and hand them out to
homeless people downtown. I will start with 15 lunches and see how God blesses it.
- wake up 45 minutes early each day to spend quiet time with God, pray unceasingly
- concentrate on God, and pray for whoever it is I'm supposed to marry someday. I don't think there is much I can do to make myself get married except just pray that God brings the right one in the right time.
- Study often and effectively. Of course there are a million things I'd rather do then study, but in order
to excel I have to study!
- I have a giving plan. I'm going to sponsor a child, and give smaller amounts each month to
missionaries and my friend who just started a non profit. I'm so blessed, it's time I use those blessings to bless others!
- be open about my faith with others, and live a life of love. People will see the love and want to
know what makes me different! My goal is to just love and love and love and love some more!
    
Ultimately I want my story to be one of compassion. I want to do great outreach, and travel to places to invest in the native people. When I get to heaven I want God to look at my life and say "Well done good and faithful child, well done! You loved and you loved a whole lot!!"