“Are You Stuck?
One way to wake up your heart is to try new and different things. Maybe you don’t even know what your heart-bursting activities are. We bury them deep inside. Try this. Make a long list of things you loved to do as a child, things you would like to try and things you love to do now. Take pen and paper and quickly, don’t think about it. No censoring. Yes, 100 things. Quick! When you run out of ideas keep writing the list of things you might have liked to do as a child, then add to it things your friends liked to do. Activities, even creative ones, are the road to your purpose, they are not your purpose. Painting may be something you love to do, and perhaps you are gifted, but if you make the mistake of believing that painting is your purpose, and then when you might lack inspiration for the day, you’ll feel without purpose, maybe even depressed. Better to find a new outlook on purpose and consider that creativity, or designing beauty, or visioning are more closely related to your “
(Via My Friends Rock! Michelle Vandepas: Divine Purpose Unleashed | Remarkable Parents.)
Those words have drawn me in. I often wonder what happened to me. Why am I where I’m at. Yes, there’s a path, and ultimately there’s leading by God as well. But I do believe that God has gifted us with desires and passions. He’s inspired us throughout our lives. But left to our own, these things often die slow and under-nurtured deaths.
In that spirit, here’s my list:
- design things
- figure out what makes things tick
- read
- write poetry
- create stories
- draw
- make games
- make computers work
- design race cars
- design cities
- dream up cool new inventions
- learn martial arts
- preach
- teach
- become a warrior
- discover something
- understand how the universe works
- learn languages
- earn degrees
- become a lawyer
- understand art
- be brave enough to color outside the lines
- cure illness
- become a great chess player
- become a scientist
- save a soul
- learn to drive a race car
- learn to fly
- write a novel
- write plays
- write articles
- write comics
- collect cool things
- design fun things for people
- learn to make and break codes
- magic and illusion
- act
- become a hero
…. oh there are more, and more from my later years as well. During my life I’ve had the chance to live some of these dreams, but many are unfulfilled desires. Like the quote above though, these aren’t purposes, they are activities that can play a part in my purpose.
One of my deepest desires currently is to inspire people through sharing, teaching, and more. I love to see a light come on inside of others. That wraps up more than one of my childhood dreams and desires.
What’s on your list my friends?
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Very inspiring! On the top of my list is to make time to make my list :)
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