Start Living

It was a Monday afternoon not too long ago when it became very apparent to me that I needed to change the relationships that I had with women. It was about 4:30 in the afternoon and my 4 year old was whining again, my 1 year old was crying again, dinner was burning and I just lost it. As I looked around my house at the piles of laundry, paperwork, toys, etc. that needed tending to in one way or another, I realized that there had to be a better way. I was treading water just trying to stay afloat in my life but I was getting nowhere. Something needed to be done. I needed help to get me moving in my life again.



I realized that instead of just surviving, I needed to start living again. I needed to start moving in the direction that God had for my life. I had desires that had been on my heart for years that I had done nothing about. I had new passions stirring and I had no idea how to begin to pursue them. What I knew for sure was that I could not do this alone. There was no way that I would be able to push through the hard times and the struggles of my day to day life without someone pushing, encouraging, and guiding me as I embarked on the journey to my destiny.



I began to seek God in order to find an answer to my problem. I questioned my friends about their struggles and solutions that they had found. I looked for a way to make positive change in my life without having to make any drastic changes to it. What emerged was a plan for LifeWalking; a way of intentionally pursuing relationships with the purpose of accomplishing goals and pursing dreams with the support of one another.



I discovered that I already had everything that I needed in order to pursue God's plan for my life, I just needed a way to utilize those tools and put them into action. I had several friends and family who cared about me and wanted me to succeed, but I realized that I had not been using those relationships in order to enact real change in my life. I discovered that while women are great at having relationships, our relationships are rarely productive. We get together and chat, share struggles and dreams, gossip and complain but rarely take that information and encourage one another to do something constructive to enact real change in our lives. Furthermore, on the rare occasions when we would come up with a plan for constructive change, there usually lacked the follow through that would enable a change to actually take place.



Once I identified the problem, the question became how; how do I, the busy wife and mother of 2 find any time to add yet another task to my to do list? What I discovered was that LifeWalking does not have to take long, be complicated or difficult. In fact, LifeWalking became the one thing that I could not live without. It was my lifeline and it enabled me to survive all the other stresses in my life. It helped me to find ways to pursue the desires of my heart, balance the stress of my daily life, and have meaningful relationships that helped me to feel connected, supported, and good about myself all at the same time.



Over the coming weeks and months I will give you all of the tools that you will need to LifeWalk. Every Wednesday there will be a new post with a thought, tip, or tool that will aid you in getting your life moving again. Please feel free to be an active participant in this blog submitting questions, comments, successes, and failures. I will do my best to give you answers and guidance to help you on your journey. It is my hope that through this blog we can all help each other to become the people that we have always wanted to be, living the kind of lives that we have always dreamed of.