Giving Challenge, III

I’ve been encouraged, and it’s only three days into this experiment! Why am I doing this, I asked myself this, a deep-down within my soul sorta question. Why?

On the surface this challenge for me in this exercise is to let go of stuff, and not let stuff control me.  But there’s more to it. It’s about making myself available. Available to hear that still small voice directing me in what I need to do or say. It’s about searching out and getting rid of the garbage that clutters my life, my house, my soul. Ultimately it’s about a closer walk with the God of the Universe and walking out that pure faith. This is not about me, although “me” has to do it. I have to examine the things in my life, cull them and get organized both inside and out.

I lay in bed thinking again last night (this is a common practice for me…) about what I could give today and tomorrow. I had a wonderful thought and started a  plan. Then I got a phone call today that changed my plan! Although I still want to do the things that I have planned to prepare for tomorrow, I’m doing something different today for someone else. Someone that  wasn’t even in my thoughts last night. But I get to give them a gift, and it feels really good. Freeing. Something so very simple to me, yet very important to another.

I’m sure I’ll go through rough spots on this journey, I still have 25-27 days left! But the encouragement I feel right now is just wonderful.

Wont you join me in a Giving Challenge? Link up in the comments section if you’d like!