Happy 2013!
If you popped over for my list of 13 in 2013 ;), I hate to disappoint you, but there’s not one.
It isn’t that I don’t believe in setting goals or having things to work toward. There are plenty of things I’d like to see happen this year. I just didn’t write them all down.
At least yet.
I’m trying to find more balance this year…and I’ll admit that I’m definitely in process.
We all are…all the time, but for some reason I just feel like I’m really in process right now.
I’ve decided that’s a good thing. 
2013 is the year I get to write my book. Honestly, I’ve already written a good portion of it, but this is the year where it goes somewhere. That is, if God wants it to. And so a lot of my spare time…you know those moments between chasing a toddler and painting with watercolors and sticking stickers and rocking baby dolls…will be spent with words.
I wrote my life statement for the God-Sized Dream Team today.
Hmmm…
It was no small task. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever spent so much time on one sentence. And between the scribbles and notes, I managed to come up with what I believe God is asking of me this year.
I believe God has created and called me to encourage and inspire others through words, stories, and lessons learned from the unexpected adventures that come from a journey of walking by faith.
At this time in my life, I feel that sentence best depicts the purpose of my book.
God gave me (us) an experience like no other when He opened the door for us to spend five years in Indonesia. That doesn’t make our experience, or our lives for that matter, any better than anyone’s, but those years did leave me with a few things.
Perspective.
Insight.
Heart lessons.
Laughter.
Deeper love.
…and more.
And my purpose in writing is to share some of what He taught me through the grit and the grace that abounded during those years.
And still continues today.
In trying to choose a word for 2013, I went through several.
I thought I was going to choose Rooted, a word that God continually seems to bring to my mind and my heart.
In the end, though, I chose Dream.
God has given me an incredibly opportunity to really pursue the dream of writing a book this year. He’s given me amazing friends and prayer support and a team of women who are each pursuing a dream as well.
Today is the first day of 2013, and again, as I do each day, I am giving my dream to God. I can plan all I want, write all I want, submit my book to as many publishers as I want…but in the end?
What happens is up to Him.
I trust Him and I’m blessed beyond words for the opportunity to
DREAM.
Will you come along for the journey?
And, today, my sweet friend, Holley Gerth, launched an e-book called The “Do-What-You-Can” Plan: 21 Days to Making Any Area of Your Life Better. It’s fantastic…I’m going through it right now. And today…JUST TODAY…the Kindle version is free! Head on over here for your free copy!
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