Almost Gone. No, make that Almost Here!

It's almost the New Year! Only three more days to get it right in '07!

Gosh, so much to think about. What to do, what not to do…

I'm thinking that 2007 was a fairly prosperous personal growing year as I approach a crossroads with myself. However, I am seeing the coming days to be a more directed growing season. Kind of like when you put a stake behind a rose bush to point it's new shoots up and over an archway. I like that.

Too many years of not growing was really starting to wear me down. Oh, there has been continual upward motion in areas of my life such as, work, finances, net worth... But is that all there is? I think not! Don’t misunderstand my point, it's good to progress in those area's. After all, that is the purpose of an occupation I guess. But what are we really occupied with? A job? NO THANKS! I do work of course, and for the most part enjoy doing so. But the purpose of a J O B is to make money so that we can spend that money on needs and wants. But why be occupied with this if it's only a means to an end? Why do we spend countless years caught up in the proverbial hamster wheel, going to work to get the check to pay the bills that support the wants of our twisted ideas of success? I do not want to do this anymore. I do not desire riches out the Wazoo so my neighbors will like me because of my "stuff". I do not want to look at the toys that reside across the street from me and rush to put on my working boots and leave those I love behind so that we too may HAVE, HAVE, HAVE.

This year, in 2008, I will commit to grow in a direction outside of myself. I'm not too sure where that will lead me. I have my ideas, but because I'm too stubborn and would hate to have to admit I thought I should go right when it was really left, I will spend more time to think n think…. Then I will pray for guidance and the courage to obey... After that, I think I should just wait in the quietness for God. I have noticed that when you quietly wait, he has a tendency to plant a stake in just the right place that will arch you toward the perfect blooming spot.

John 15:1
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener."

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