We are always waiting, aren't we? Waiting for more money. Waiting for better health. Waiting for opportunities. We are also always ready. Ready for a change. Ready for a college degree. Ready for a new chapter. Ready for our current trial to be over.

I'm so guilty. I won't pretend like I'm writing this for y'all. The truth is that I'm writing this for me. This is something that hit me today in the midst dealing with some health problems (my "thorn in the flesh," no doubt) which has left me not only in pain but completely frustrated with God. I have let worry and fear control my life. I am putting off living my life. I am playing it safe, so to speak. I am accepting less than God wants for me because I am terrified of moving forward in life.

I had one of "those moments" today. The sun was shining bright and the wind was blowing. It was a beautiful day here in Southeast Texas and the windows were rolled down. It was so clichéd. Honestly, it looked like a scene from a movie. I was struck by how beautiful this world is. I looked at the trees, so tall and strong. I saw the birds flying happily. God has a plan for them, and if He has a plan for these things, then His plan for me is unlike anything I can imagine. He has a plan and He wants us to start truly living. He wants our all, not just a church service a week and a bedtime prayer. He wants everything we have to give. He wants to write our story, but we must let Him. We must trust Him. We must die out and follow him daily. Today is the day to live.

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
^{Matthew 6:26&27}