DREAMS!

Hey friends. seems like I'm not doing that great at this whole blog thing, but I really do enjoy reading everyone else's!

I really cannot believe it is March already.

Here is what is really getting to me this week, and just really consuming a lot of my thoughts and prayers. My three best friends from high school, are all taking a leap of faith towards their dreams. One of my friends is leaving for Africa, where she is going to spend two months teaching and loving the kids at a school in northern Africa. Then my other two friends are going to be running their first marathon. This is all happening on the very same day.

Two friends are running 26.2 miles and another is flying like 10000 miles [over exaggeration]. Talk about taking a leap of faith.
Talk about making your dreams come true.

It got me thinking about my list of dreams. The one I made freshman year in college when I was sitting in the dorms. I pulled it back out and here are tidbits of what I was thinking about back then, and still want to do...

lead kids to Christ
Be running when I am seventy years old
Go Skydiving
Backpack a foreign country
remodel/build a house
be a wife and a mom
help others with their fight in cancer
help others with their fight for confidence
try something new everyday
learn something new everyday

start of something new

Feel great in '08.

People all over the Ann Arbor area see that motto when they are driving around. It's posted on road signs as a advertisement for some fitness company in our area.

I've kind of developed a love hate relationship for this constant reminder, this little red and white poster publicizing a motto that implies that people weren't already feeling great in 2007.

But at the same time, I wish making changes in my life really was that easy. Call a number, fill out some papers, and just start watching the changes occur. But that isn't how it happens, that is not how God intends for anything to happen. I'm always telling people "God doesn't call us to do easy things, He calls us to do hard things." But I don't think I ever really caught on to this concept myself.

I'm not going to go into great detail on here, but I just feel really challenged to go down some hard paths in my life. I know the easy thing for me to do right now is to continue being who I am doing what I am doing.

But that's not faith. Faith is never comfortable. If I am ever comfortable, I feel like I'm not moving... not pushing myself to take a leap, make a jump, or really I'm not living my faith through actions.

I've got an idea about what direction I need to head in, thanks to God. So now all I've gotta do is just rely on faith to change me. What a simple concept, but a hard leap to take.

Feel great in '08? What already makes you feel great? What are some nudges you've been feeling, some paths that you feel God is calling you to head down? What is holding you back?

Shalom friends and thank you God.