chapter of choices: goals

I was recently asked what goals I had for myself. What goals I had for my career, my volunteering motivation, and my goals for my humanly existence.

Before I tell you mine, I really urge you to jot down your own goals for yourself. Don’t limit yourself to one area of your life; push yourself outside of your box and find even one goal that you can universally put into every area of your life. If you seek in purity of Christ, this goal may be fitting for the rest of your time here on Earth.

Here’s mine:

Have you ever walked into a high school weight room, and hanging on the wall are record weights lifted? What once were goals to achieve while under the squat rack, are now hanging up on the wall, to be beaten once again. Goals are embedded in nearly every aspect of our lives; for some it’s a lifting goal, others a GPA in school, shots scored in a basketball game, days without abusing drugs or abusing yourself, but all of these goals have one thing in common, the future.

Goals are reliant on the future, for if there were no future in our perspective, we would never have any goals. Regardless of what future means, being two minutes from now or twenty, our goals are reliant on our future, and our future on the goals.

My goal, my future, boils down to this: loving a new soul every day for the rest of my entirety of existence.

This is what I believe to be true in regards to my goal:

Loving a soul is never easy, for if it were it wouldn’t be based on conditions, which true love should always be unconditional. If my future can be filled and expressed through an unconditional love towards the souls i encounter, my future will have surpassed what I could have thought of for myself.

Love is sacrifice, and more often than not, sacrifice cannot be explained or reasoned, it just occurs when you have agape love for another soul. In all honesty, that’s what makes this an actual goal, actually something to really find motivation for…the sacrifice. To first, sacrifice my soul to Christ every day, so that I am able to sacrifice everything I do for others. The reasons a soul acts towards love may not be put into logical reason, but is to be put into the nature of God.

I cannot promise anything beyond the hard work and sacrifice that goes into this goal, but  I vow to undividedly and unconditionally love every sort of soul I encounter while on my journey.

Lose Yourself

Lose yourself.

Lose yourself in the way the leaves

Depart from their tree

In the

Autumn breeze .

In the way the wildflowers stretch

Out their stems in the wind, Lose yourself.

Lose yourself

To the sunshine,

The day,

The moment,

To the shapes in the clouds.

Lose yourself

To your imagination,

Your smile,

Your desires,

To a new adventure.

To the blankets that bring you

Closer on bitter nights.

Lose yourself to loving

New souls, and to

Letting

Love

In.

Lose yourself

to your soul.

Lose yourself

In trade for the sanctuary

Your Father

Created

In

You.