Desires of Life

It is interesting how when I ask clients and even friends what it is that they want, most of the time they can't answer that question. Yet when you ask what they do not want the answers just seem to flow.

One thing that I have come to learn from all these sessions is that we seem to be living a life completely in contrast to what we confess and pretend to be living. We paint this picture to the outside world that is not worth the canvas we try to paint it on. And it does not fit so we just cope and carry on and in the process get to know more and more of that which we do not want.

Yet in His Word our Father wishes for us to have a life in which our joy may be full.

So what does your picture look like when your joy is full? I am not talking about things in itself, but your life as a whole. Your spirit life, your relationships (marriage, children, friends), your working day and your health.

When last did you take the time to consider your joy, to look at your life and envisage the picture of you being filled with joy? What does that look like?

If you don't know then make the time and start with just one color in the painting, one thing that needs to change or begin in your life allowing that light breeze of joy to whisper into your heart. Once that is established the awesomeness of that joy and the life it brings will motivate you and give you courage to address the rest, to open the windows of your heart and let joy gush into your heart. Having your heart full of joy.

So what next?

Start with that one little thing. Start to live it consistently so that people may see and declare it about you. Maybe you need to become trustworthy, punctual, or just learn to say no. Whatever it is, start living it so that it becomes part of who you are and that people who are in fellowship with you may experience it.

My wish for you is to start practicing the truth of who you wish to be. And not only the person you wish to be, but the person you declare to be!!

You do not have to start changing many things all at once as there is a powerful truth and principal in life that supports you for the good and the bad, so you need to pay attention here. Light draws light and darkness draws more darkness. So your ways will draw similar experiences to you and your time of fellowship with people and with things will draw the same to you. You are quickly consumed by these and the light (joy) in your life will start to shine brighter or the darkness (sorrow, frustration, anger) will take you to dark places.

There is a powerful Chinese Proverb that says: "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time to plant a tree is today." So don't postpone, don't give life the opportunity to have you sit here 20 years from now...even one year from now...saying that you wish you had planted that tree. Start today and a year from now you will rest in the shade of that tree. Doing things different tomorrow than what you did today will bring change.

So make that choice, you are worth it!!