Going Through The Motions

This past year was one of the hardest years in my life.  Maybe the hardest of all.

In an ironic twist, it seemed that every time this sweet baby was in the hospital, my own trials increased.

While the things that God allowed to come my way in the past 12 months have strengthened me, they have also left me exhausted and spiritually drained. 

At this moment, the close of this 28th year of my life, I feel like I am stuck on “auto pilot” or in what I fondly call the “cope mode”.  And I am tired of that.  I don’t want to be stuck…

…I want to be thriving!

I don’t want to go through the motions anymore, I want to give my everything with an all consuming passion for Christ and His amazing grace in my life.

When I came across the above video clip of Matthew West’s song The Motions I knew it was going to be my theme for the year of 2010.  I hope it will be your theme as well as we step out together from going through the motions to soaking in the presence of God and living a life consumed by Him.

I don’t want to wake up at 60 years of age and look back and ask myself: “What if I had given everything?”  I want God to take me – my selfish pride – out of the way this year and dig deep to refresh my hear, mind, and soul in Him.

Do I have a plan? 

Yes!  I do have a plan.  Something that I am going to set in motion this week to help make this a year where I just soak up all I possibly can and saturate my life with the truth of God’s Word.

Join me on January 1st to read about my 2010 theme…

WHAT IF I HAD GIVEN EVERYTHING?

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