I Love My New Office Space!

Deciding to move my office upstairs into Lindsey's bedroom was a total surprise. It began with a conversation with a good friend and ended with me here typing in front of a big screen monitor on top of my new Pottery Barn Outlet desk. Can you see me smiling?

I love my new office space! It is bright, has soooo much more room than the one on the first floor in the red room; well the used-to-be-red-now-a-beautiful-deep-pink room. I'm smiling again.

And I feel like I'm getting away somewhere when I come up here. Not far away, but away from the everyday world of the first floor. Did I say this yet? I love my new office space!

New Beginnings and New Mercies Each Day

Living each day, purposely, proactively, thoughtfully, that’s what I’m thinking about today. Why am I thinking this way? Because I’ve spent many days moving from one task to the next, sometimes at breakneck speed, without even noticing a single thing going on around me. I don’t remember what I did those days, except to mentally check off some project or chore. Yet with all my past accomplishments, most of the time, necessary responsibilities and commitments remained unfinished leaving me always in a catch-up mode.

So long catch-up, hello “willing to become.”

Today, I’m choosing plans and goals. I’m choosing to look at one year as a length of time in which I will accomplish something BIG. I’m choosing this journey knowing a simple, healthy and manageable life are attainable if I am willing to accept responsibility for this commitment.

This is a step of faith for me, maybe even a leap of faith, and although not the first time I’ve challenged my faith, it is certainly one of my most deliberate moves so far. Leaving my well-worn path for a new route, I’m expecting to see some awesome sites, to meet new friends and learn new things. I also expect to make wrong turns, to need help and to have to change direction. But I believe this is the right choice, to live on purpose, to have a positive influence on those around me, “to be willing.”

So, I’m choosing to pray to God as my friend, to talk with Him instead of at Him, to share what I’m doing and thinking, what I’m trying to decide and desire to accomplish. These two-way talks between us will be the foundation to lead me where I am to step next. A firm foundation based on truth and filled with the grace that God gives to me constantly.

So long catch-up, hello God, here I am and I just wanted to tell you I’m grateful for new beginnings. But they scare me too. You know my past record, LORD. Should I put myself out there again? Should I try and hope and put my faith in living deliberately?