In pursuit of AWESOME...

One foot in front of the other. One day after the other. How can I be more awesome today than I was yesterday. How can I be greater tomorrow than I was today. Putting life into perspective...we aren't here for us. We aren't here to gain more. We aren't here to live life day after day with no direction. We aren't put on this earth for ourselves. We are here for Him. We are here to share His word. To share His life. To share His direction. His direction for our lives. His direction for others lives. We were all created for different purposes. Some are meant to preach. Some are meant to teach. Some are meant to lead. Some are meant to follow. What is it that we are called to do? We are called to love unconditionally. We are called to share uncontrollably. We are called to be more today than we were yesterday. Our pursuit as a family is to become more...more loving and more in love, more faithful, more obedient, more courageous, more passionate, more understanding, more consistent. God calls us to be his hands and feet but often days I look in the mirror and say "what have I done to be greater for Him today? What have I done to show His love to another. What have I done to be awesome for Christ today?" This life is not about acquiring more things and having more. Its about seeing how many great things we can do with what he has already given us and what he continues to give. Sometimes this is hard. We are always in pursuit of more. It's human nature to want more to buy more to have more. But, when we get more...how much more is enough? Or, do we just want more? What kind of awesome things can we do with more. Our pursuit of the ultimate more might come in funding adoptions (maybe our own), building orphanages, paying camp tuition's, buying someones groceries, funding an entire angel tree, building our own camp, giving like we have never been able to give before. It's all about furthering God's kingdom...NOT MINE! Now, don't get me wrong...we aren't perfect and I'm not playing a we are better than you card. Its taken a long time for the mentality of having "more" to come into perspective and some days we fail at it miserably. But, as a collective group in pursuit of the same "greatness", the same "more", the same "awesome"...We could change the face of this nation. We could change a world. There would be no more orphans, no more hungry...become the father to the fatherless...WE...COULD...BE...AWESOME!