Day 30 of 30: Reflect & Forsee

Day 30 of 30: What are your goals for the next year?

1.       Hopefully in the next few months I’ll be able to confirm the dates & book my trip to Paris in May

2.        Pay off the rest of my car

3.       Survive my first year at my new job (I’ve officially survived my 1^st week on the job with no catastrophes!)

4.       Continue to deepen my relationship with Christ

5.       Smile more. Stress less.

6.       Take another step towards an international move

7.       Visit home and my extended family at least once

8.       Travel even more than 2014: I’ve visited ½ of the US, so I need to start working my way through the 2^nd half

9.       Deadlift 2x my bodyweight, beast out some strict pull ups and learn to do a 1-handed handstand

10.   Learn a new language (or become better at the ones I know)

11.   Try sushi

12.   Take on a new hobby (SUP anyone?)

13.   Start my side business (in the works currently)

14.   Serve on a mission trip, internationally or on the home-front

15.   Pour into the lives of others with the love of Christ

The past 30 days have fun exhausting but really fun blogging on a regular basis again. Thank you guys for the sweet comments and love you’ve spoken to me over the past month; what a fun trip. God has really blessed me with a love to write and share my thoughts with others, and it constantly amazes me that my seemingly blank words can speak to you in a deep way. Always remember you are a child of the most high God. You are blessed, you are chosen, you are adopted, you are accepted, you are redeemed and you are forgiven. Your identity is in Him. {{Galatians 2:19-21}

Day 09 of 30: A Fruitful Future

Day 09 of 30: How you hope your future will be like.

I'm going to try not to repeat what I said in my previous post, the Next 10 Years. I hope my future will be bright, prosperous, exciting, filled with adventures, challenging, and rewarding. It's strange thinking where I'll be in the future; I couldn't even guess what city I'll be living in, what career path I'll be down at that point and what I will be doing with my life.

Sometimes I feel like I have a split personality. If I could envision myself ten years from now, I'd love to be living in some big city with a swanky apartment with super modern details and clean lines. I'd love to be that city mom who is pushing the stroller with chic heels and a great Louis bag. Then there's that side of me that wants to be out in the country somewhere with acres of land, a renovated old farmhouse with leaky faucets and room for kids to play and horses to graze. 

In the future I can just hope that I've improved on the things that I need to work on the most. In Galatians 5 it talks about the Fruits of the Spirit, and I hope that these are the things I will have in the future: love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. If I can work on growing these fruits now, I think that my future will be bright, prosperous, exciting and rewarding. 

Well no matter what my future holds, I know the One who does hold the plans in His hands. The Lord will provide in His own perfect timing, so until then I can just do my best to live a life that He has called me to live in this season. So whether I move to London, Minneapolis, or a small town in Wyoming, I will wait on the Lord and know that He is good.