Daily Life with a New Perspective

Often we walk through our day, and we have so many expectations-of the weather, God, our jobs, and the people in our lives. We expect them to perform in a way that fits what we see for our life and our future. And when they deviate, we react. Whether it be with anger, fear, hurt...whatever the emotion, let's be honest-it's a reaction to the situation, and it is caused by our own expectation. We set ourselves up daily, when we should just change our perspective a bit. There is never going to be a day, or a situation that we can one hundred percent predict. We are not God, we cannot see the future, and people are fickle and unpredictable. 

I found myself being suffocated by my own expectations this morning. And it was hard to step outside of the situation and watch myself. I was in complete compliance with the mediocrity before me. I pretended to sleep, rather than just tell the person in my home to leave. I said "I'm fine" when I was SCREAMING inside. I decided all on my own that this was the best life was going to be, and the sooner I accepted it, the sooner I would feel joy again. Why fight it? Who says my life is supposed to be amazing anyway, right?

WRONG.

God did not design us for complacency, or laziness. We were created to accomplish more than our biggest dreams, see the world's potential, and reach for the heavens! Why would our creator give us this great big world, if we weren't meant to explore it? And dream bigger, reach higher, pray longer? I have a shirt, somewhere in my closet, that simply states "Made for this". And for a long time, I believed I was. 

Somewhere, in the course of life, and bumps and bruises, I quit. I lost the dream. That inner part of my soul, that believed I could change the world-that God CREATED ME to change it for the better, got lost in a sea of compliance with the world's standard of what life should be, what normal should be. And now, I think it's high time I got back up!

My footsteps will be slow, my voice shaky, and my will a bit weak. But the beginning is where you get your strength. The middle is where you find hope, and at the end-whether you're climbing that mountain, viewing the perfect sunset, or just walking down some stairs without stumbling-whatever you want to conquer, do that!

My time runs shorter than yesterday, so I will go for now, and take this new, unaltered perspective of mine out into the world, and just see what I can do!

That's how big my brave is today-how big is yours?