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 I don't like setting direct goals!  I don't mind large goals, but I don't like sitting down and writing a the whole list.  Majority of what gets written I only do for a few weeks or month and then I forget about it.  At the end of the year I feel like a failure.  My personality is a dreamer.  In my dreams of what I want come my goals!

A few years ago I was introduced to the concept of a word or a phrase for my goal.  That has been a life changer for me!  I actually have stuck with it and ponder on it all year.  A few years ago my phrase was Stand and Live (being the buffalo and facing the storms of life).  

All week I've been pondering what I want my words for the year 2021 to be.  I heard many stories that inspired me on the directions I wanted to take.

  • I want to be more courageous. Not let my anxiety of the unknown shut me down or make me live in fear.

  • I want to act upon the promptings that come immediately. No hesitation, no justifying it away.

  • I want God to trust me, to know that I will do whatever he needs me to do.

  • I want to remember that with God even the impossible is possible.

These are my goals for 2021!


Courage to Jump

These words seemed to call me when I was listening to Calee Reed on the Wednesday Inkling Institute.  I loved her story of having to jump to a trapeze that no one could reach.  After, she asked her leader why?  Why would they be asked to do something that he knew everyone would fail at?  The leader responded with the simple answer, no one failed.  The purpose was to see if you had the courage to jump.

She then went on with the story of Peter walking on water.  

First off, this is one of my all time stories of the New Testament!  I love that every time I read it there are new lessons for me to learn.  Well, there was a new lesson for me to learn again.  One of the lessons for us is do you have the courage to act?!

All week my heart has burned as I have thought of that.  I want to have the courage to act and yet recently, I've been hesitant.  I find all the reasons I'm not good enough to be the one acting.  I justify that I must just be making up the call, God wouldn't ever call me to do that.  But what if it isn't so much about what I'm doing after, as if he is building trust in me.  He wants to know if I will act immediately every time or will I hesitate and find some way out of the call.


But God

But then I heard Emily Belle Freeman's inkling institute on Thursday.  She introduced the thought, but God.

Hasn't that been the story of the whole year of 2020?!  Only because of God did my business survive.  Only because of God did I have one of the sweetest years with my family.  Only because of God did I grow closer to Him through the trials we faced.

That phrase began to burn within me too!  I hung scriptures on the pantry for my kids to always remember that with God all things are possible (Luke 1:37, Philippines 4:13, 2 Timothy 1:7, 1 Nephi 3:7, D&C 6:33)

As I think of the scriptures my mind go immediately to the stories where God did the impossible - Moses and the Red Sea, Christ raising the dead, Joseph Smith and the 1st Vision, are just a few that I've been thinking about.  

God seems to love to do the impossible, but in all of these things the person who God acted through had to have the courage to act immediately.

As my mind works through all these though process I felt it wise to combine all these phrases to really hit what I want to accomplish this year.


BUT WITH GOD HAVE THE COURAGE TO ACT IMMEDIATELY


No matter what trial comes this year, no matter what he calls me to do may I remember that with Him the impossible is possible and I may move forward without hesitation!


What are your words / goals for this coming year?





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