Potential

I have been thinking alot about life lately. I am turning (eeeeeek) 30 this year. That is so hard for me to say. I know that 30 is not old so to speak, but it is kind of a defining year. So that has me thinking about life and about where I am, where I've been and where I am going.

Now I don't spend to much time on where I have been. I used to. But I have learned that while it is good to reflect on the past and learn from it, it does absolutely no good to dwell on it. That will just get you in trouble.

So where am I? I have a great family-wonderful husband and 2 beautiful children. I have a great job. I get to travel and I am involved in the community. It's a great place to be and a great springboard to where I want to go. I work with good people-many of whom I feel privileged to call my friends. I attend an awesome church. A church that cares more about reaching the unchurched and hurting than anything else. A church that is open, honest and transparent. So I am in a good place.

So what about my future? What does life hold for me in the dreaded 30s and 40s and dare I even begin to mention my 50s? I'm not sure. I can tell you what I want and what I hope for. I hope to one day run for office. I'm not sure which office yet, but I just know that I want to help people and I think that is the way I was built to do it. I want to serve more at my church. I want to help bring others to our church and to Christ. I want to be a good wife and a good mother. I want to be an example to my daughter and a role model. I want her to see first-hand how a strong woman of God lives. I want to paint and I want to write books. I want to be a good leader.
I want to speak to women. I want to do so many things. I want to take the potential that God has placed in me and be a good steward.

Potential is a latent excellence or ability that may or may not be developed. We all have potential. It's just for different things. God gave us the specific abilities and talents to fulfill his plan for us on earth. So that is my plan for next few years. To take the abilities that God gave me and use them or develop them so that I can do all of the things that he created me to do.

We are all beautifully and wonderfully made. And we all have a great calling on our lives. And God gave us everything that we need to fulfill that calling, whether we know it now or not. So that is my new focus. To be a good steward of my potential.

So goodbye 20s and hello 30s.

(But just so you know-I will be in my bed with the covers pulled over my head on July 18 and I won't come out. Except to head to the fridge for a big tub of raw cookie dough!)