Overwriting

I think I am somewhat resolved to the fact that the United States' economy calls us all to this harried pace, which in many cases does not allow us to think about our lives meanwhile they fly by us, and we are left lost as to the reasons why we have chosen anything that is currently a part of our lives. Perhaps I overreact and am not thinking clearly, and perhaps I am simply lazy, and based on this last opinion I am starting to try to pick up the pace a bit. But I will say that I will never go so fast as to sacrifice who I am in favor of anything financial. Though I see that hard work does indeed pay off, I am uncertain that this is truly going to prove fulfilling for me in life. For the moment yes I need work hard and push to fulfill all the obligations put upon me, however I am not beholden to anything in this world beyond my life within it. Once this is done, no one can hold me to them, and so up to this point I have lived my life quite recklessly, but I daresay, quite daringly as well. Maybe I have a misconceived notion of daring, but I believe this is simply being willing and ready to greet whatever circumstance and to always follow your heart wherever it may lead.

I do not want the conventional life. I do not want to work forty hours a week and come home every night to my family awaiting me, or maybe I do, but not today, not tomorrow, not for a long time to come. I want the world, I want to touch the person that lives in you and call him or her out to live the life that is greater! To reach up to God in love, and then be able to reach out to one another. To change the face of this planet by your simply living inspired! You cannot be anyone other than yourself, but we all need to be inspired to do so. If your life is boring to you, change it, find a way to make it more interesting, regardless of what changes this may take. If you cannot change the big picture, alter the little things, make arrangements to do something fun every day, something that inspires you and fills you up and enables you to push on.

Perhaps I am a dreamer, and I know that I may be. But all I want from you is that you would dream too. That together we change this world to make it a place where everyone has the opportunity to achieve their dreams. Unfortunately we are right now in a great quandary. There are so many who squander the opportunities they have been given, and others who have ten times the inspiration of those who have squandered, and yet have nothing before them but poverty and endless restrictions and red tape.

What about these members of society? Do they get to dream? Let us hope that in the time to come we change our own lives and hearts so that we can dream, and so that our dreams help make it possible for others to realize their hopes and dreams. There are so many voices telling us that these things are black and white, but they are not. It takes a lifetime to come to know oneself, and around ever corner is a new opportunity to learn about ourselves and to adjust our lives to better include these so that we may live each day truly inspired and truly alive! And the bigger question, and greater difficulty is what a friend of mine once had posted on her door, that our job, our vocation, our mission, is that which lies, "where your greatest passion meets the world's greatest need". Or something to this effect...I think we have something to learn from this...

Keep living and learning and loving...together we will find our way, in the light of God's ever present, ever living Truth. Onward Christian soldiers!