Day 17 - Stepping Out Boldly

Wow!  This work has taken me on a new path that I didn't expect.  When I started this blogging adventure I expected to accomplish two things: 1) help my daughter become known as an artist and sell her art and 2) fill my time with writing about the places we traveled and people we met in our retired years.  Both goals have kind of fallen to the wayside.

My daughter has little interest in the blogs I set up for her art and her daily life is now filled with activities necessary to survive, leaving her little time for her art.

I now find that I am content to stay put in our little home south of the border and have no inclination to travel.  I find even our month jaunt to shop a trial.

Yet, I still blog on.

Instead of world travels, I find I am now motivated to follow a more personal adventure.  Today is Day 2 in my journey through the 100 Day Challenge.  The trip has taken a route I hadn't anticipated.  I started it thinking it would be a shortcut to successful marketing but found instead that marketing isn't my goal at all.  A serious introspective look at what I wanted and where I want to go brought me to a new perspective.

The first half of my life was spent running from God.  The second, in taking Him for granted.

Now in my third trimester (as I expect, Lord willing, to live to 90) I have come to the place of re-prioritizing my priorities. 

My lesson today was about boldness.

To switch channels on this blog and talk about personal faith and God takes every ounce of boldness I possess.

I can already hear the critiques and skeptics.  

You don't mixed religion and business.

You are going to offend your readers.

I don't think you or I should squelch our beliefs.  I believe each of my readers should be free to believe what they want. I believe they should also be free to speak about what they believe.

For those that are offended by this, they are also free to not read on.  I don't know where this journey will lead but it is high time I find out.

I believe in a loving God who elects to have a personal relationship with us.

I believe my part of that relationship consist of seeking His guidance daily and following the path laid out before me.

I don't believe that what He tells me to do applies to anyone else.  It is their task to seek their own direction.

Like I said, this journey has taken a new road.  I may have to change the name of my blogs again it this continues.