It is indeed that time of year again, and as it happens every year I have become increasingly introspective. I'm not sure what it is about the shortening days, crispness in the air and Holiday jingles floating through the airwaves that brings me like clockwork back to this place of depth and contemplation but for some reason it always does.
This year I have been teleported mentally back to a time when I really truly lived my life for others. Don't get me wrong I certainly had my youthful selfishness from time to time but at that point in my life I cared most about God, His place in my life and serving others. We've come a long way from Graceland..
At that point if asked what my purpose in life was my unequivocal answer would always be
"To change the world" (a lofty goal for a Texas teen) I didn't know how I would do it or when, but it was my M.O.
Flash forward to today. I look back now and wonder what changed?
Let me preface the following statement with this disclaimer; I LOVE being married, and motherhood is a dream come true. My current life is wonderful but it is not all there is. We were all created for a bigger purpose, our own piece of the puzzle. And good or bad our actions (or lack there of) paint our portion of the picture. My desire was for my section to be colorful, vibrant and full of lives that I have impacted for the better.
But at what point did my path (change the world) get altered so much that it now looks more like "Get a job"?
Mediocrity is the greatest villain on the path to greatness.
Once again allow me to clarify here, I am not saying married parenthood is mediocrity, I am referring to the complacency of the day to day. Just getting by, making it through. I at one point lost sight of the bigger picture but all that is changing.
Having my Daughter and thinking about the future has relit a fire under my rear end to make the world a better place. She deserves a better world, but even bigger than her. My God deserves nothing less then our very best and I intend to be more than just a waste of perfectly good carbon. I want for my life to mean something.
So how do we get from point A. *talking about change* to point B. *Making things change*?
The answer is action. So let me ask you dear reader, if you were given thirty days to live, and unlimited resources what would you accomplish? You have two stipulations, 1. It must be for others and 2. You must be willing to do whatever it takes (within what is moral and legal) to accomplish said goal. How big can you dream? How much could one single person accomplish? What about in a year? Now what if we mobilized thousands to do just that? With 1,000 people thinking outside the box and living for more than just themselves what all could we accomplish? How many millions of people's lives could we change for the better?
If start living for more then ourselves and changing the world one life at a time, then we just might change the world.
