Make your life a story worth reading.
This is what is hitting me in these lessons so far. I love stories. I love to read stories, I love to watch stories, I love to hear the stories of the people God puts in my life. Stories encourage me and help me to grow. I know that my story has the potential to do that as well, but it seems like so often we do feel our stories are insignificant and small.
I found the exercise on page 22 challenging. Beyond the fact that my name is Barb, it's hard for me to see significant change to give a meaningful answer to "What was your life like". Was. That's the word that's stumping me. I don't know that my life is so changed as to allow for a what was my life like.
I'm a mom, a wife, a friend. I've had struggles sure, but I haven't had an angel visitation, or even a vision calling me to a new life. It's more like many small changes that have propelled gradual change. A spouse losing a job, kids making life choices that hurt their future, losing a work relationship that made the job fun in spite of the demands, struggling in a new work situation with a person who lacked integrity. These small life changes have propelled me in small ways into a deeper relationship with God, and a heart that is more willing to lay self aside to see just what it is that God has planned. But. . . having said that, complete surrender is still a scary commitment to me. As we learned from the stories we've been studying, God doesn't see what we see - where we say, what are you thinking, I could never do that, God says, yeah, I'm pretty sure you can do that, let's give it a try.
If I have gained in significance at all, it is in a heart that is more willing to look foolish for His sake. In that vein, my declaration of independence would be:
I am God's child. I am significant in His eyes. I am most free when I obey. I pledge to open my eyes and ears to Your desire for my life and to surrender my agenda to Yours.
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