#ChallengetoRekindle

2014, I'm sure you're great, but did you have to eat up 2013 so quickly?!  My mind is blown that it is almost 2014, because I'm confident I'm still drifting in the clouds from 2013.  Looking forward to the next year, my journey doesn't slow down at all.  There is so much to look forward to in the next several months, I'm already overwhelmed. 

runDisney Walt Disney World Marathon and Half Marathon Weekend is less than 10 days away!

Here are only a few of my exciting adventures for 2014

January - Goofy's 39.3 Challenge, which is a Half and a Full Marathon in one weekend!
February - Workcamp Visit to Colombus, OH and a BC Young Alumni Convocation Presentation
March - Shamrock On!  St. Patrick's Day Shamrock Half Marathon
April - Sitting for my Clinical Nurse Leader Certification Exam
May - Graduation with my MSN from JMU
July - Workcamp in Colombus, OH
August - Disneyland Half Marathon and 10K Dumbo Dare Challenge

I have countdowns and reminders and clocks and to-do lists; alerts and alarms.  Never hear this as a complaint from me, because I enjoy the thrill of going from one thing to the next, but I fear becoming consumed by deadlines and dates to the point that I forget the reason I live and enjoy life!  I challenge myself to rekindle the things that are important to me and the people to which I am important.  In no way can I identify myself with reminders and lists; even though, so many other people place my identity in those things.  I fear consuming myself with my own adventures, so much so that God's adventures have no place in my life, will sweep away my focus in 2014.  Along with reminders and clocks, and resolutions and goals that we set for ourselves, worry and doubt, and fear accompany those resolutions and goals.  Fear that a goal we set won't be completed.  Worry that my to-do list will only get longer.  Doubt that I'm good enough to complete my resolutions.  At what point in time do we allow God to intervene in our life?  And at what point does God just intervene and say, STOP? 

Can we all challenge ourselves to allow for the spontaneity of desires and dreams to overwhelm our souls to the point that we release the reigns that we grasp onto, so tightly?  I only hope that I can live out what it means to not be consumed by things, but to be completely transformed by moments and people in my life.