Tough Question

If you could do what you've always wanted to do, what would it be?

It doesn't seem like it should be the most difficult question to answer, but somehow it is.

My mom does a lot of reading, she has an incredible library of books I like to borrow from. In the book I'm reading now by John Eldridge called 'Dare to Desire' I came upon an especially moving suggestion:

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.'

WOW. Quite an effective passage, wouldn't you say?!

So this takes me back to my original question. I'm still thinking on the answer.

Life seems to be about discovering the answer.

I know I like running, I know I'm creative, I know I am daring and I know that I embrace my unconventional way of thinking and behaving. I know I cry for a wounded animal or a helpless person. I know I love to climb to the highest point and look out on God's amazing creation. I can sweat and smile doing it, bang my legs up and keep on going, trip on my face and laugh getting up. But what, if all permission was granted in my favor, what would I do?

Maybe I'm making this too difficult. Maybe its to continue on running, falling, climbing, laughing, crying, embracing...Maybe it's as simple and as wonderfully freeing as that.

Perhaps the secret of life is written on our heart's desire. And the question is not so much WHAT do we desire but - DARE WE NOT DESIRE?

Unwritten?

I don't know about you but music MOVES me. Particularly when the lyrics have depth or tell a story I can relate to.

Every time I hear the song 'Unwritten' by Natasha Bedingfield, it gets me thinking. Maybe you know it.

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

Nicely put - but yet those final words resonate with me.

THE REST IS STILL UNWRITTEN.

Unwritten. But is it?

True, we may not know all of the answers or what actually lies beyond each bend in the road. But to think our lives just...happen? No thank you. That's not the way I choose to believe.

I believe our lives were intricately written by the ultimate of authors.

As a graphic designer, I naturally have a creative eye for design. The most miniscule details that others might overlook, I can appreciate.

Well, my God is the master of all designers. To even begin to grasp the incomprehensible magnitude of his love - perhaps we can start by taking a good, hard look at ourselves. The proof lies in His meticulous eye for detail. The fleck of gray in my blue eyes was no fluke - just as the place I am at at this very point in my life is no accident.

If each grain of sand is accounted for, if each strand of hair is numbered then how can I NOT believe that? Interwoven in His loving plan is our purpose. It's up to us to read between the lines.

So when I hear that song, I take my own artistic license. I change around a few words to better suit me.

Drench yourself in the words He's spoken
Live your life with His book wide open
Today is where your book continues
The rest our God has written.