Aspirations

Goals. Aspirations. Dreams.

Whatever you wish to call them, you should have them.

Have a purpose in life.

A reason to do what you do.

Personally, my ultimate and overlying goal in life is to be a light for Christ and to be a true example of what His servant should look like.

Right now I am not doing so well at that. 

So I am working on changing the necessary things in my life to get back on track. 

It's hard, but it's possible.

I have other goals, all of which support this overlying goal.

Some of my others are:

• marry the man of my dreams
• graduate college
• become a Lutheran classroom teacher (hopefully a preschool or kindergarten classroom!)
• gain better control over my anxiety and handle my stress better
• start a family
• find a church that fits my family's needs in the best way possible.

Obviously some of these goals are quite a ways off yet. Some have more flexibility in when they may occur.

Regardless of what I have in mind for timing, I need to keep in mind that God has the timing worked out already. It isn't going to always go how I have planned.

Matthew 6 offers a reminder about how to handle these unplanned events and timings:

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.