"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
-- e.e. cummings
My husband and I watched the last four weeks worth of Canadian Idol's sixth season (where local boy Theo Tams was declared the winner, but where I also thought it would've been neat if Mitch MacDonald from Port Hood, NS had won), and I was struck by -- particularly during the results show -- how neat it is to see people doing something they genuinely love to do. And this is a thought I've had at various points in my adult years whether it's hearing the stories from two friends who teach kindergarten, listening to my husband talk about a song he's working on or other examples which escape me at present. >_<
I was thinking about such things again today while working on mustard receipts (I work at a processing plant where lentils, chickpeas, peas, mustard and canary seed are cleaned and shipped to various areas). I enjoy my job, I really do, but as I was thinking various what-nots I wondered "Do I want to be doing this years from now?". There is a somewhat-neglected novel in the beginning-to-middle stages on my computer; a guitar gathering dust that I'd like to truly learn how to play and many other goals, I guess, I'd like to accomplish before my time here is done (hopefully, anyway!).
Yes, God has a plan for my life. He has good thoughts He's thinking about me to give me a future and hope (Jeremiah 29:11).
The question is am I walking in that plan? Am I passionately pursuing Him, accomplishing what He has for me to do? Am I being who He has made me to be, or am I trying to be what I think I should be or what the world around me thinks I should be at this point in my life?
Or, to divvy things into four areas my pastor talked about a little while ago during my church's weekly Bible study, I need to know:
1. Where I am.
2. Who I am.
3. Where I'm going.
4. Where to start from for #3.
Who (or whose) am I going to be?
1 comment:
I love your thoughts on things and they resonate with me so well! 'Tis certainly a struggle in life, eh? It certainly helps to take a step back and try to see the big picture, but then again, sometimes God chooses not to reveal the big picture to us, we just have to trust Him. He's omnipotent, omniscient, and move loving than we can even comprehend. Why is trusting Him so hard sometimes? Why do I feel like I could do a better job? The idea is really absurd!
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