What Fires Me Up..

I did an exercise the other day in my Lara Casey #powersheets packet called "What Fires Me Up".  The whole purpose is obviously to list the things that set your soul on fire with the intention of doing more of them.

So....here's my list:
(These are in no particular order)

Drinking a yummy, hot beverage

Laughing so hard, tears come

Telling funny stories/Being told funny stories

Encouraging others- speaking truth into their hearts
Quality time with John and Aralyn

Singing
Music
Jazz

Being silly

Getting a good start to the morning

Making something thoughtful for someone else

Getting/Receiving mail

Reading the Bible

Writing

Road trips

Traveling to a new place

Visiting cute restaurants/coffee shops

Eating delicious food (especially if there is bacon in it)

"Clicking" with a stranger

Playing fun games

Pretty colors

Deep thinking

Being spontaneous

Reading something truly inspirational

Feeling the Holy Spirit move in my life

Being around a lot of hustle a bustle

Visiting large cities

Being around my family

Mini golfing

Pretty journals

Volunteering

Serving

Teaching- especially young kids

Being in natural sunlight

Compliments for a job well done

Being in a place that has really great ambiance

That's just a start.  What fires you up?  Go do it. 

2015... Let's Do This!

Well hello friends. To say that it's been awhile since I have posted is an understatement.  I'm not blaming it on anything in particular...ahem...having a baby.  The fact is, I just haven't made it a priority. My apologies. 

I love the start of a new year.  I absolutely yearn for the time to come to get a new calendar and fill it out.  I don't make resolutions but I do make goals.  This year I bought a pack of Lara Casey's Powersheets to help me organize my thoughts. 

 I've started filling them out and just really appreciate they way they are laid out. I find joy in filling out forms and seeing things on paper. (I know, I'm weird:)   Go to www.laracaseyshop.com to learn more.  I do, however, believe they are sold out until the spring. I was only introduced to Lara Casey a week or two ago, but man, I wish we were friends:)  

I also started a Bible Study by Jennie Allen called "Restless".  

I was drawn to it because, well.... I feel very restless sometimes. I feel like my mind is just a pool of ideas at times. Ideas that sometimes seem too big to accomplish.  Ideas that I think are great but fear others might find silly.  I struggle with this feeling of restlessness because I never want it to be out of discontentment.  I truly believe God does give us a spirit of restlessness at times, because he is moving us towards something new.  Jennie says in her book:

We are designed to dream

We are called to dream

We must dream

I know the Lord has given me gifts and abilities that I MUST use.  I fear wasting my life. I also know there is a time and a season for things.  Right now my main priority is raising my little girl in the knowledge of the Lord and leading her the best I know how.  So... some of my dreams are solo involved that they might have to wait for a different season of life when I can truly commit time and energy to them. 

As I move into 2015, I believe this is going to be my theme verse. I've read it so many times, but it is just a great section of Scripture to memorize and really commit to.  I feel like it's almost like a checklist for life.

Hebrews 12:1-3

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great could of witnesses, 

Let us

 THROW OFF everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles,

and let us

RUN WITH PERSEVERANCE the race marked out for us. 

Let us 

FIX OUR EYES ON JESUS, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning it's shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

CONSIDER HIM who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."

I can make all the goals in the world, but if Jesus in not before them and in them, they mean nothing.