Big Dreams Demand Big Achievements

Thank God for everything that He has done in my life and all of the lessons that I've been shown. I am starting on a new adventure as of late and I am learning how to adjust to life outside of the oil field. It took me a long time to realize that there was such a thing.

I went to go eat with a friend earlier and it was such a great time as always. I am so very thankful for his friendship. Its great to actually have someone ask me "tough" questions. Its great to have someone encourage you when things get tough. I hope that a lot of people view me as that type of friend to them. But back to the whole idea of this thing of learning about myself. I have been on this whole self-help kick for about a week now and it is so awesome. Im not like reading these "dont kill yourself" books or anything but just somethings that encourages me to be a better me. I am a firm believer that God has a very specific plan for each of our lives but when did being broke down and heartbroken ever get into that equation. Jesus said that he came so that we may have life and may have it more abundantly. Through Jesus we do have an abundance of life but we also have to work for that abundant life. I don't think that we can sit lazily and let God do all this work while we reap all the blessing. It is also said that he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly but he that sows bountifully will reap bountifully. To me that means that we have got to get off of our butts and work for God. We are called servants but when did the servitude get taken out. All we want to do is reap reap reap. In my opinion its time to step up to the plate and live for God and accept the challenges that He gives to us. Its not like He is asking us to build an ark and get 2 of every living thing on it. He may just be asking us to talk to a neighbor about His love. He may be just asking us to build a community of believers to lift one another up. Am I saying that there wont be obsticles in our path? No, I am asking what are you going to do when you get to that point. Are you going to look and say well I can't get over it and then give up on God's purpose for your life or are you going to say "God I need you now more than ever, you are going to have to get me over this because, on my own I have no chance." Kinda weird tothink of this but the movie "Employee of the Month" w/ Dane Cook just came to my mind. Obviously that is not the most religious movie but I think that it does have a great principal that we all need to learn in it if you pay attention to it. He tells the story of why he is merely a box boy after all this time rather than advancing. He tells how he used his grandmothers retirement to start up a business and that business flopped so he just gave up on everything. He never wanted to take a chance like that, that could end in failure. Well none of us want our lives to end up in failure but its not always the victory or loss that God is trying to give us. A lot of times its the underlying lesson that has much more effect. Dont take failure personally. Don't take rejection personally. Take a step back and look at the entire situation and learn the lesson that God was teaching us. Look at things through God's sight not our own.

Now I am the guiltiest of this if anybody is guilty. I have always lived my life and just hoped that God would take care of everything. Through my new job I have realized that the old saying of thats just life is a bunch of CRAP! As a kid we all have huge dreams of being the president, playing pro football or baseball, or being a doctor, or singing. What happened to those dreams? I personally wanted to play pro-football. I remember my dad asking me as a kid what it was that I wanted to be when I grew up and I very specifically remember telling him that I wanted to play football or be a country music singer. Now I believe that we all will appreciate that I didn't chase after the singing career. I promise your ears are greatful. But I remember my dad coming back with a very tough comment of "Ha very few people will ever get to do those things. You should think about something else." I personally believe that it is comments like that, that take away our childlike dreams and even more our childlike faith. Now I know that my dad wasn't trying to extinguish me from ever dreaming, he just knew the reality of the chances of me doing either and voiced it to me. Those are the comments that provoke the saying of "well thats just life." I very muchly disagree with that statement.

There is a sign in our office that I believe says "If you can dream it, You can achieve it." Now on that note, the achieving might not be easy. It may seem unobtainable. But I promise there are ways to get you where you want to be. I am learning to change my attitude from one of looking for God to give me everything to one of giving God everything and letting Him put the puzzle pieces in place to get me where I want to be. My goals right now are to have my truck paid off by next March. Have $10,000 in my saving account. And reach Regional Vise President at Primerica by April 2010. Now none of those goals are gonna be easy at all. None of them will just happen over night and none of them will make themself happen. Now a broader goal of mine is to work as if I was working for the Lord and let Him put all those things into place whenever He see fit.