We’re half way through the year.  Have you moved toward or achieved (or perhaps given up on) your 2013 goals?    Every December, I prayerfully choose goals for the upcoming year which will support my life purposes and dreams.  I try to be reasonable and yet push myself out of my comfort zone in order to grow.  I like to review my goals regularly to see how I am progressing.  As we hit mid-year I’ve taken steps toward my goal of starting a blog.

This took 6 months because I felt quite insecure.  “Does the world really need or care to read what I have to blog?”  “What can I say that hasn’t already been shouted from the rooftops?”  Regardless, I knew it would challenge me and would require a time commitment.   Since most people who start a blog soon give up I wanted to be sure this was for me.  I asked the Lord if He would confirm my desire by having someone encourage me to blog.

So the wait was on!

Several weeks later, in a hallway conversation, a young lady (whom I greatly admire) said, “Mrs. Stucky, you should blog.”  In that moment my heart rate elevated.  Her words were almost exactly what I had asked of the Lord.  Did she know her words were being used as confirmation?  That experience should have been exactly what I needed in order to jump in and get started.  So did I get started?  No!  My insecurity continued so I asked the Lord again if He would have one more person confirm my desire to blog.

It’s important you understand, this was not something I felt the Lord commanding me to do.  If that were the case my lack of following through would have been disobedience.  Instead, this was a desire on my heart that I was considering and I was asking Him to confirm the desire.  Several of my favorite Bible verses are Psalm 37:4-5. I like to know that the desires of my heart are His desires for my life.  The more I delight in Him the more His desires become mine.  So I choose to commit my ways to the Lord.  The word commit used here is a picture of a camel burdened with a heavy load; when the load is to be removed, the camel kneels down, tilts far to one side, and the load rolls off.

Six months later, I was telling someone about an experience that really encouraged me and reminded me of God’s goodness.  As I finished the story she said, “You should blog that.”

So here I am still incredibly insecure about this adventure but willing to move forward.

Do you have a goal or desire you would like to achieve?  What is one step you can take in that direction?  Perhaps you could ask the Lord to confirm your desire.

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