"Are you listening?"

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to whom who knocks it will be opened." Matthew 7:7-8

Pulled...

Daily living can be exhausting at times because there are so many demands for your time, energy, money, opinion, and knowledge that at the end of the day, you are left completely depleted. So many individuals desire a piece of you and continue to consume your energy or resources until you are rendered useless. Now this is not everyone and this is not all the time but on occasion it can seem that individuals are more concerned with their own agenda. Society has a way of demanding your conformity and desires individuals to follow the mass for more wealth, a nicer house, personal agendas, ladder climbing, and your basic societal influences, which I do not want to succumb to the masses.

One of my favorite movies of recent is "What a Girl wants." I know, I know it is a girly chick flick but I LOVE it...and it has provided me with loads of good laughs. My favorite quote from the movie is, "Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?" Wow...what an awesome quote, I think I rewound it a couple of times to watch it again and again. It really spoke to me, why would I desire conformity to this world's standards? Why would I want to follow what the crowd desires for me? My only true ambition should be to follow the calling God has placed on my life. Now, this sounds easy enough ,right? WRONG!

Wrong, wrong, wrong....I get in my own head! I try to focus on where I need to go and what I need to do in relation to what God has called me to do. God has called me to find my identity and security in Him and Him alone. Yeah, easier said than done. At times I become down trodden with the "desires" of society and think about what I would want or not want out of my life, and then I get in my own head and things begin to go crazy. I mean I do have desires and wants but life can bog me down sometimes...just got to remember to stay positive. NOT to lose focus and to keep on keeping on! :)

Just random pondering. Don't worry I do love life and am learning to be content with where I am!