This week's challenge: I wrote my first poem as an assignment in English class when I was in the fourth grade. I knew instantly that I was a writer. Throughout school if I was given the choice between a project or an essay, it was a no brainer for me. Essay please!
Year book staff was a highlight for me during my senior year, as I contributed to many of the pages within that edition. Even in my spare time, I hung with my best friend, late into the night at diners with papers and pens; dreaming and writing.
I always thought that it would be awesome to write for a living but truthfully, I never knew what to write about... Then there came a blog and it was kind of by accident... But it satisfied in a way that was completely unexpected.
Earlier this month I went to a conference and I teased a friend about creating a greeting card line. Once the words left my mouth, they seemed to hang in the air. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Oddly enough one of the speakers mentioned something about cards too and it seemed to highlight the very thing in front of me.
On the way home, I recorded about 30 cards in my voice recorder. The irony struck me that I've just always imagined something "bigger" in my words than a few one liners. This was so much smaller and more doable and more me...
Even more so, my word for this year is "smallness". This is definitely smaller.
Switching to another area of my life; I desire to spend more time in the Bible myself. I sometimes think that I could all of my days, all day in Bible Study. I also want to do devotions more with the kids, pray more with my husband and then do all of the above more as a family. I have accumulated books and books and more books, hoping to do a little here and there but there are not enough hours in the day for all of my ideas.
Then I came across this blog about a study on the Book of Acts. (Watch the video, the author Courtney Joseph, even mentions doing it with your kids. Even if the younger ones only do it as a doodle on a page with one scripture.) If you get the gist of it, you won't even need the book. If I sat down and did this one thing more often and as a family then it would accomplish all of the little things that I have been trying to figure out how to work in. Even if it wasn't every day. This seemed more doable and again, smaller... but packed with so much more purpose and meaning.
My challenge to you this week is to consider whatever that dream or plan is that you have and then ask yourself. What is the smallest thing that you can do with it, right now? Is there a way to do less and accomplish more?? And/or consider if there a way that you can glorify God in the process?
Scripture for the week: The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" And he said, "A staff." - Exodus 4:2
That verse is so small but pretty simple, isn't it? Just as we might pass over scripture that doesn't say "more" we also pass over opportunities and methods that are equally simple. But doesn't God use the most what we already have, no matter how little? If you want to see more examples of that, check out this link!
Oh and have fun dreaming!
Do you have a testimony about this challenge or a suggestion for another one? I'd love to hear it! Comment here!
Picture Credit [then modified]: http://www.superbwallpapers.com/nature/sunrise-over-the-mountains-14501/
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