Today Is... "It's Go Time!"

“God didn’t put those thoughts in your mind and on your heart for you to turn the other way. He put them there because He knew YOU and only YOU could do them. So pick yourself up, dust off your dreams, and go out there and change the world.” – ACB

“Dig deep and ask yourself what your purpose is…” – Lee Cockerell  “Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney

 “World changing leaders know they are not the best but they care the most. The world isn’t looking for anymore experts, what the world wants, what the people want, is passion and a heart.” God has unlocked the door to my heart and given me the key to open the way towards the vision and the purpose that he created me for. I am no expert, in anything I’m afraid to admit, however I know that I care the most! It seems that the past few months I have left this idea of being an expert take me over and get me to doubt the purpose that I know I was to fulfill but as I listened to Gil preach tonight, I knew that the ideas that once filled my head were now filling my heart and the time has come to JUMP! As he created the perfect metaphor between vision jumping and high dive jumping he told the story of when he was a boy and being catapulted off the high dive into the deep end. Before he jumped, his babysitter asked, “Want me to count to 10?”  Shaking, he nodded yes. “When I get to zero it’s go time” she replied. And as he said this, he asked, do you need God to count to ten? My knee jerk response… YES! There have been times in my life that I have made sacrifices, some much bigger than others, but nothing has scared me to my core like this decision to JUMP completely out of my comfort zone into a whole new way of life. “If you don’t have to come outside yourself to obtain whatever it is that you are after… your vision is not big enough and it is not a vision from God,” Gil subtly stated this evening. There it was again, undeniable evidence that it wasn’t what I had for dinner that burns my heart, but the vision that God has placed in my soul and carved into my very being that continues to pull at my heart strings and ask “Are you ready?” I know that God will be watching me, ready to see me make my splash on the world, as he reminds me “JUMP. You’re the person I made for this.” So tonight, as I stand up on the high dive and look down at the waters of fear below, I ask God to count to ten knowing that when he reaches zero… it’s go time.

“What in your life is calling you? When all the noise is silenced, the meetings adjourned, the lists laid aside.. What still pulls on your soul?” – Terma Collective “The Box”

“The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role that destiny has for him.” – Stevie White “Boots on the Ground by Dusk”