Becoming

Current Goals:

To learn to truly and purely love others, 

without the impure stain of self-congratulation and self-admiration.


To understand just how sinful I am,
So that I can better see how glorious our God is,
and how badly I need Him.

To learn to accept failure and disappointment,

without darkly groaning about how much I deserve it 

(and, of course, hoping someone will comfort me and tell me how wrong I am).

To learn to accept setbacks without breaking and melting down -

or, to truly accept God's will for me, even when it looks different than I hope.

To learn to speak the truth in love,

to realize that I can't always be "nice,"

to be willing to make enemies.

To learn to bring my worries and fears to God and trust Him for comfort,

not run to my friends or even family, and expect them to fill my needs.

To learn to keep my mind and my effort focused on the task in front of me,

not to escape to leisure and rest as soon as I can manage it,

but to complete my tasks strongly and thoroughly.

and,

To learn to be true to myself:

to be quiet when I need space to think;

to control my responses and actions, not let circumstances whirl me along;

to bravely use silence to plan my words and thoughts;

to be willing to be

compassionately different,

refreshingly weird, and

comfortingly normal.

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What are your current goals? Who are you trying to become?