31 Days of...

Intentional Living!


I've been reading at The Nester who is doing a 31 day series on her blog right now.  At the time it started my thoughts were blank for a topic and the thought of committing that amount of time did not appeal to me at all.  But, as you may know, I'm reading this fantastic book, What Women Fear.


And today Angie Smith wrote to the heart of me.  She wrote to the fear of not being significant.  That feeling that my life matters, that I'm making a difference, that something in this world would be better because I was here.


Angie writes it well:
"...it's easy to feel like I didn't do anything that really mattered the entire day...If I step back it's easy to see why the pages don't seem to matter; just scribbles on a page that had the potential to be beautiful...More often than not I spend my time on what I wish I had done with the kids, what I wanted to do in my time with the Lord, the impact I could have had if I would have just gotten my act together.  And the image of tattered pages, fresh with intention and promise, can haunt me long into the night.  At some point I release it to God, asking Him to work with what I have given and to make the next day better.


But don't I have a part in that?  To choose to make the next day better too?  For God to order my prints and for me to actually move into them?


My 31 days starts tomorrow.  November might seem like a better time to start, but if it doesn't happen tomorrow it may not happen at all.  Besides, then I'd only have 30 days!  It will be so refreshing to write for 31 days on things that DID happen rather than things I wish would have!


Father, help me to see in the next 31 days and beyond how I can be intentional about making each day matter for Your sake.  To love people and to serve them.  You are the one who created me and You have purpose for my life.  Help me begin a habit of living it out each day...