Blogging? Christine, a blogger?? As I have so often read many a witty, funny, creative and even random blogs by those I so admire...my response would be, Why not? Blogging can't be wrong, can it? Blogging is just you and it's just me being exactly that...you and me, and allowing others to share in a little bit of this journey we call life. So here it goes... :)
As I woke up this beautiful Saturday morning, laying in bed & enjoying the thought of just being able to lay there with nothing to do...was suddenly interrupted by the hundreds of things I 'knew' I should be doing today and tomorrow...grocery shopping, laundry, errands, calling this friend, delivering this 'late' birthday gift, and the list goes on. After all, there's only 2 days to the weekend and I must be productive, right?!? I must get started...
Then I began to think, what am I doing? What is it I really want to accomplish this weekend, what do I want to accomplish today? Has life really become all about 'making' and 'crossing' things off of a to-do list. Now don't get me wrong, I am all for making lists and even more for crossing things off of it...but the question or rather challenge in my mind is...what's on my list?
Are all those things 'groceries, laundry, errands...' important? Of course and I'd probaby be safe to say wearing clean clothes is important to the person next to you too. :) The question at hand is though, what other things are on my list? What things have been on my 'mental' list but never made it to my 'to-do' list? Better yet, what things are on my 'vision' list that have not made it to my 'to-do' list? Probably more than I'd like to admit.
I recently read a quote by Walt Disney, "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." So simple yet so profound.
So today, my list has gone in the trash and I am embarking on a new one...a life one. Will some of it look the same? Probably. But now there are 5 questions I must answer to each thing that goes on my list:
1. Why am I doing this?
2. What if I didn't do this?
3. Who does this benefit?
4. Does it matter? (at the end of the day, will it really matter if I did this?)
5. Does this line up with what God has called me to be and told me to do?
So my question to you is What's on your list?
