Choosing To Soar!

I feel very much like I am the last of all my friends to enter the world of "bloggers" - Though, not surprising, I was also the last to get my ears pierced!!! - Let's just say "a late bloomer!" But, better late than never!!! Some things just take a little extra courage for some of us, and your step to soar may be very different than mine! Just as long as we make the choice!!

For soaring, as everything else in life, is a choice! And this year, I have chosen that phrase for my goal! Every year I wait on God to see where He is going to take me in the adventure of knowing Him, and this year, He is calling me to Soar!!! (I even enjoy just saying the word, because it conjures up visions of weightlessness, and heigth, and freedom!)

I know that does not mean that this year will be all roses - already, we have dealt with illness in my immediate family, disappointment in some plans, anxious moments, unanswered questions, - but it's not so much the activity, as the perspective of the activity! I am making it a daily choice to soar - regardless! Easy enough for me to say so far - It's only February 1st! But it's also been 31 days of choosing to look above - and fixing my eyes on Jesus, where no other distractions are getting in the way! You see, some how, up where the air is clear, so much of what impairs our vision, pettiness, discouragements, uncertainties, can't reach us there! There, in the arms of God!! And, when life begins to attack us, and it will, instead of retaliating, SOAR!

Rise above!!! It will take some effort at times to rise, but choose to look for the lift, and then, SOAR! And, once you look above, then fix your eyes above, to Jesus! It really only takes that first look, because He has had you in His gaze from the moment your life began, and He will fly to you!!! That first look is the one that takes the strength, when we would often sooner wallow in our own slef-pity. But may I challenge you.... Where would you sooner be??? Today, right now, I CHOOSE TO SOAR! Join me! I'll be watching!