Give it a Try

LifeWalking has been instrumental in quality decision-making in my life. There have been several "big" decisions that I have had to make in recent years and by using LifeWalking to try on the decisions that I have been making, I have been able to make many quality decisions that I'm not sure I could have come to without the element of LifeWalking.

A little over a year ago, I was struggling to find my life message. I wasn't quite sure how God wanted to use me. I decided to LifeWalk that decision with a close friend and the results were incredible. As we both processed ways that I could better hear from God, we came up with some simple "assignments" that I could do in order to better understand what direction I needed to take. I did some journaling, wrote a few articles, conceptualized some speeches and essentially took up the mantle of LifeWalking over the course of our ten week journey. By the end of ten weeks, I had tried on the decision of making LifeWalking my life message and I was certain that it was the direction that God wanted me to take. I was then able to move forward with confidence that I was doing the right thing. It was the ability to process this decision with a good friend who was supporting me in prayer and honestly giving me feedback that allowed me to move forward confidently with my life message once our journey was completed.

The next step was to discover what direction I should take with this message. LifeWalking had worked so well in the past so I tried it again. I began a new journey with another friend. This time I knew that my message was LifeWalking but I didn't know where I should go in order to share that message. I decided to try on the decision of starting my own ministry as a way to share this message with the world. I wasn't sure if I had what it would take to have my own ministry, I wasn't sure what it should look like and I didn't know how to fit it into my busy life. Again, I processed with my LifeWalking partner and we devised some assignments that I could do to "try on" the idea of this ministry. I worked on conceptual ideas, set goals, made a work schedule, and presented my ministry idea to several people in order to get feedback. At the end of 10 weeks, I felt confident that I could start this ministry with the backing of friends, family, supporters, and most importantly God.

These are a few examples of times when trying has resulting in ultimately doing the thing that I was trying, I have also tried many things that didn't stick. For a time I tried to take up knitting (not my thing), I tried to exercise early in the morning before my son woke up (it didn't work for me because I was just too tired at the end of the day), I tried on the idea of going back to work but decided that it just wasn't the right time for me.

Allowing LifeWalking to take an active role in your life decisions by processing them though trials can help you to come to much better decisions for your life with much less pain and in a much shorter time. Give LifeWalking a try, give your decisions a try, just try, you never know what will come of it.