02/10/2025
Many of you know that Bob Goff is my favorite writer. What started it all was a book he wrote called Undistracted. For a person who has what feels like thousands of ideas running through her head all day, finding a way to be undistracted was most definitely intriguing. What do I have a hard time with? Getting those ideas out of my head and into real life. I literally wrote this in my prayer journal this morning: "I pray for these ideas to become. Period." I know, sounds like there should be more, but that's all I want... for these ideas, these things God has laid on my heart to become, to come to fruition, to be active and working to bless others.
So what happened after I wrote that in my journal? I opened my Bible to what I was reading yesterday because I felt like I needed to read it again—Romans 12. After I read it and the commentary beside it, I opened my devotional, which is incidentally Bob Goff's newest book, and would you believe the very scripture at the top was Romans 12:2, where I was already turned to and about—you guessed it—distraction.
They say that the Bible is the only book that reads us as we're reading it, and in cases like this, I feel that to my core. If I could ask for prayers for anything, it would be for God's will to come to pass and that I stay focused on His amazing plan for my life, just as the devotional title says.
I know that I know that I know this shop has sooo many wonderful gifts because people need to feel love in different ways. Gifts that touch the soul of a person can do that, reaching deeper than words themselves sometimes. But the core of this business is to reach others, to show each and every person who walks in, who comes across the shop on FB, or receives something from here, that they matter. YOU matter. There is no one on this earth that can fulfill the purpose God has for YOUR life, and to that same point, God will not use you to fulfill someone else's purpose—hence the reason we must not be distracted, because that is the biggest way the enemy keeps us from fulfilling that purpose.
Romans 12:2 reminds us that we aren't to be like the world; we are to be transformed from the inside out, and the only way we can do that, my friends, is by staying in our own lane, focusing less on what those people we shouldn't desire to be anything like are thinking because, truth be told, we're paving our own path, and that path will touch more lives if we worry less about the rest and focus on what's best—and that is His will for our lives.
You may think your calling is small—as a helper, an encourager, an artist, an intercessor, a teacher, an assistant, a teller, a librarian, a custodian, a postal carrier, a parent, a spouse, an electrician—you name it, but there is STILL a purpose on your life, a calling to do more, to be more, and to give of yourself for the betterment of others. Don't let your past define your future or your choices dictate your direction. Choose now to become who God has created you to be, because the world needs it now more than ever. Set out to change the world, one small act of kindness at a time, and keep doing that, undistracted and determined to "stay focused on God's amazing plan for your life." Praying for you all today! ☮️💜✝️
