In case you missed it a few months back, the difference between goals and desires is a pretty important thing to understand.
Goals are things I set for myself; what makes something a goal is that I am the only one responsible for making it happen (or not). If meeting my goal in any way depends on someone else’s choices or actions, the goal is not a goal. It’s a desire.
A desire is something I want to see happen, but part, some, or all of it is beyond my control. I can still work to see it happen, but I don’t hang my happiness on whether or not it does.
The woman in today’s story missed the fact that her job was just to be the best example of a believer she could be. In my life, sometimes I feel like a failure when my kids don’t do well; I feel like I’m in trouble when my kids act badly. But the bottom line is that my job is simply to be the best mom I can be, understand that they have choices to make, and trust God to handle all the stuff I can’t.
For some reason, that inspires me.
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