The Next Step
Hi y’all!
It seemed like a good idea to switch to y’all instead of everyone because we live in Texas now. Texas is beautiful and amazing. Actually, every place I’ve ever lived was beautiful and amazing. It’s good to be here.
There are times when the journey we’re on can seem overwhelming, especially when goals are large and the road is long and it just feels daunting. Everyone who ever ventured to do something great and large and succeeded went through the same feelings. The secret is that instead of focusing on the large, long road ahead, they just focused on the next step.
It’s been recommended that the best way to achieve a large goal is to break it down into smaller pieces until you get small steps that are really easy. Then you just do those little steps each day and you keep going. Writing a blog 3 times a week is one of my little steps. There are a lot of little steps and over time those little steps pack in some miles.
Sometimes the little steps seem trivial but when I look back at what came out of those steps I’m pretty impressed with how God put things together for me to learn. Some of the toughest parts of my life brought about the greatest blessings in my life. Some of the worst things that ever happened to me prepared me to be the kind of person I needed to be for someone else.
Through it all, the love in my heart has directed my steps. I have goals. I think everyone does to some degree or another. I have marriage goals because my marriage is the most important relationship I have next to my relationship with God. I have another goal that keeps wanting to come forward but it still seems to hide in the shadows to some degree. I can’t see it clearly.
Maybe some of you can relate to this. In some ways, my greatest happiness is to have a simple life. Being home with my husband, cooking dinner, having my mom here now that my dad passed and being with our animals is a great joy to me. Praying to God and feeling His presence in my life is what gives me the most comfort. Every day is blessed.
And yet, there is more that tugs at my soul. There is more that sits in my heart waiting patiently to come to light. As much as I know myself, I don’t know what this is. I remember somewhere I heard a metaphor about how when we’re driving at night, we don’t need to see far ahead to stay on the road and drive safely. The moral was you don’t need to see everything to move forward.
For me, it has to do with my relationship with God. I trust God. I do my best to love God with all my heart, with all my soul, and with all my might. God has shown me over and over and over again that I can trust Him and that He has my best interest in mind. He works all things for good for me, just like He promised in Romans 8:28. I’ve experienced this for years.
Part of my trusting God is training myself to not be concerned about how slow or how long or how uncertain the road can seem on these steps that I take each day. My ultimate goal is to serve my purpose for my Creator. My Creator is God. He created me for His purpose to serve others and to be a light here in some way. Still I wonder as I write this next step.
I wonder, what kind of impact I could have on others that could make a difference in a bigger way. I wonder, what I could do for more people than what I do for the people in my life now. I wonder when I sit in my office at my desk on the world wide web how many people God wants me to reach? I wonder how many people I could really help with what I know?
The next step isn’t always easy. The next step isn’t always loud. The next step doesn’t always seem to make a difference. Every nail hammered to build a house on it’s own is very small. But when all the nails are placed where they are needed and the walls are strong and painted, the house provides a space where people can live and flourish together. Still the road seems long.
Until next time…keep taking the next step. And if you aren’t sure of what your big goal is yet, keep taking steps until it shows up for you. The biggest goal starts with something very small.
Best,
Laura
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