Just One Step at a Time

This is my first blog~~ I'm feeling some fear in my fingers as I type!  What? Seriously?  Fear has NOT been a part of me.....or I've tried desperately to give it the boot every time I felt those pangs of tension...so here goes......off the side of the mountain I jump....will God be my parachute?

I trust in YOU GOD to catch me even when I'm silly and make poor choices........You have always carried me!  I trust you now.


Okay, a couple of thoughts on my battles with fear~
First, it's not of God...enough said...PERIOD (but I can't stop chatting, I think it's a 'girl thing.') LOL.....but we feel it deeply and it seems huge.  Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer helped so much that  I even bought the audio book to listen to as I traveled..over the hill and up the road to and from my happy job! 

I pledged, I'd NEVER huddle in my little shack in fear!  I bet, you know those pledges...huh?  Brave and bold, like standing on the front of the Titanic--"King of the World" moments or setting in nature....crying to God with a humble heart, fully broken........ in your very personal  space of declaration...you've been there!  So, of course, you guessed it....I caught myself huddling in my shack of fear!!!  Literally--I found myself saying, "It's YOU and me God~~~~going solo with you.....I give you everything......just let me know what you want of me.   Insert awesome praise music here or any selection from Handel's Messiah!

By the way, thanks for reading and allowing me the opportunity to share pieces of my heart with you....I pray that it will inspire and bless you and give you a giggle or two.  Laughter is such good medicine!

So, my confession is that without daily renewing my mind in Christ Jesus, I come up with some super plans of how it should be!!  You know,' God's BIG plan for my life REALLY needs to look like THIS picture that I've created.'   Do you ever do that?   I know the answer...you're human too.  My plans grew to mentor women, feed the poor, shelter the homeless, rescue the broken...................pretty much...........SAVE the World!!!  What????? Seriously?????  In my unbridled passion.........I fast forward with dreams beyond and fail to take it just one step at a time.

Crumbled up on the floor in tears........I asked God to take my hand and show me HIS great plan.  Oh, it's beautiful beyond measure.......but the message I received seemed simple---almost TOO simple for this brave warrior that I want to be............here's the message........

Just follow me.......one step at a time............keep your heart open to my prompting moment by moment................your on MY time schedule now...(did that mean that I need to toss out my clocks?) .........I heard HIM speak to my heart saying, "I will place many people that need me in your path, be faithful my child with the steps and I'll handle everything else."  Tears drop!!  

Wow, what a relief.................all I really have to do is be faithful in the steps?  Am I 100% faithful in my steps----of course, not, I'm human and forgiven.  But I'm seeing that sweet spot shine brightly in life now.  It's in the JOURNEY.............in the steps...........that God calls us to do what we can, with what we have, right here, right now!!

What does it mean to you to be faithful in the steps?  
How can you make shifts in your thinking to release control of the 'big plan' and submit to Jesus daily?

More about what that looks to me in future blogs......................stay tuned.
Blessing, Peace and Godspeed~~all that cool stuff~~until we meet again. :)