The Will I's

Happy New Year! 

With 2015 here it's time for all the excitement, all the potential of what could happen. Many of us ask all these questions of the possibilities. And many times it comes in the form of the 'Will I's'.

Will I lose all that extra weight? 

Will I finally finish that dream I started?

Will I finally find 'the one?'

Will I stop drinking?

Will I pray more?

Will I go out of my way to love more and care for more through my actions and not just my words?

For me personally, the turn of the new year for the past 2 years makes me a little sad as I miss my old friends from Central Florida as I sit here in the Greater Houston Area in Texas. So I ask 'Will I get to see them soon? Will I form relationships again as close as I was with those people?' 

No matter what goals we might set or what we would like to see happen the 'will' questions are always in the back of our mind whether we realize or not.

And most of the time, what we would like to see happen doesn't. 

We allow the 'Will I's' questions to remain questions. Or if we fail to let ourselves see what we would like to see in ourselves, we might just take the "there's always next year" approach so we end up in the same cycle all over again.

We must leave the 'Will I's' behind.

If you have a heart beating in your chest and two able-bodied feet you do one thing. You say 'I will.'

You keep moving. 

You don't stop. 

You put one foot in front of the other, use the willpower that God gives and you keep moving.

You will.

Using your will to keep going is what allows opportunities to arise. So you might not lose all the weight this year because of unexpected events or you might not have prayed as much as you'd liked to or you might not have spent as much time with your family as you wanted or you might not find those friends that will be there for you until the end of it all.

But as long as you're still alive, you have a chance every moment in any day, month, or year to see new opportunities come and have a chance for it to happen.

Forget the 'Will I's'.

 

Focus on the 'I wills'.

And keep going.