Impossible

I love my roomies.
This has nothing to do with my post, but I thought I'd make it known. :)

So.. I had a feeling that I would be a terrible blogger. I am a PROFESSIONAL Procrastinator.  Every day I keep 'meaning' to post a new blog.. well here goes n.o.t.h.i.n.g.

About halfway through my first year of masters, I met someone who was a little older.. and single. (**this isn't headed in the direction y'all are thinking ;) **) 

Someone asked him if he was dating anyone and he said no. He said he wants God to put her right in front of his face. He said "when she comes, at least I'll know who I am.. she can take it or leave it."

And as simple as that statement was.. it had a DRAMATIC impact on me.

Who am I?? 

That's the question that echoed in my mind. Who the heck am I??

So I like to give gifts.. and when I do give them they have to be perfect.. I put A LOT of thought into them. In my opinion, a gift can tell someone how well you know them. So I started to think.. If I could give myself only one present.. the absolute perfect gift.. what would I get myself? 

.....I couldn't come up with anything!! NOTHING. How pathetic.. I wouldn't know what to get me.. the person I spend the most time with.. I should know myself inside and out.. But I was stumped. 

So I continued to ask myself.. who am I?

All I kept coming up with is who I wasn't. I'm not a runner.. I'm not very emotional.. I'm not a singer.. I'm not I'm not I'm not. Then I began to think about why I'm not these things..

Because they don't come natural. I would actually have to work at these things if I wanted to become them. If things aren't "God given gifts" and they don't come naturally to us, we put them in the "this is what I'm not" category..

After that dead end.. I really felt God asking me.. Megan, what do you want to be? 

Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

I can be anything that I want to be. I can do anything I want to do. 

If I was to ask you.. whoever may be reading this right now.. 

'Would your life look any different if you knew nothing was impossible?'

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.

Luke 1:37 "For nothing is impossible with God."

We live our lives thinking we have limitations because that's what the world says. We live by the expectations set for us. Especially this generation, we have the mindset that if they think low of us then why change their minds? 

I want to change my mindset from thinking "nothing is new under the sun" to  "anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. (John 14:12)"

I want to live knowing that Jesus has set the expecation for me and according to the scripture above, He expects me to do greater things than He, himself did.

So let me ask you some questions.. 

Who are you? If you were to get yourself the perfect gift.. what would it be? 

This is a quote I learned in masters: If you tell God who He is, He'll tell you who you are. Find out who you are in Christ. Because once that happens.. nothing can stop you.

Are you living with limitless limitations?

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. My mind can barely comprehend that. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.. We put limitations on ourselves. Break them!!

And lastly..

Are you just barely getting by each day?

Are you just going with the motions of the day because that's all that is expected of you? Follow God's expectation of you. Break the bar of expectations set by the people around you. They are only there to hold potential back. Give all of yourself to whatever you do.

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

-Audrey Hepburn 

Love, Meg.

Limitless

As some of you may know.. or not.. I just finished my first year of Masters Commission.

It was definitely not what I was expecting at all, but life changing at that. Every year they pick a theme, and this year was a year of "NEVER BEFORE's". Our year was summed up with that. People would do stuff they'd never done, because it was a year of never before's! No matter how ridiculous or crazy. 
So it got me thinking..
I want to give a theme to every season of my life. Something to remind myself and keep me focused on what God is teaching me or walking me through.

After praying about it and thinking about it.. it hit me.
LIMITLESS.
A quote kept coming to my mind when I was brainstorming themes.
"Give without remembering, take without forgetting."
I have a tendency to give and remember. I'm not a terrible person.. let me explain. I like giving, I really do. I mean, it's not my love language or anything, but if I see need I'll help out. But my 'need' meter must be a little out of tune.
"Oh you need some food for lunch? Sure have half of my sandwich."
"Oh.. you don't have dinner? Hmm.. okay.. well have some of mine.. I guess.."
"Oh........... You don't have lunch again..... do you forget that you eat everyday at 12:30? Ramen is $0.30.... but sure have some of mine..."

Not really the cheerful heart that Jesus was talking about, huh?
I have a really bad habit of putting a limit on the amount of something I will do or give.

1 John 3:17-18 

¹⁷ If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? ¹⁸ Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 

I think in the MIV (Megan International Version) I always read it "¹⁷ If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need of something small, for a limited amount of time.."

So I began to think.. what else am I putting limits on?

Love, grace, forgiveness, compassion, prayer, mercy..

All the things that God gives with no limits. 

I want to be a giver, no matter who it's to or what it is, I want to love with everything I have in me relentlessly and unrestrained, I want to forgive and FORGET, I want to cry with people, to laugh with them, to smile at them, I want to pray to God like it was my last day on Earth. I want to live a limitless life. Putting limits on yourself only holds YOU back. 

So I challenge you.. do some soul searching and figure out some areas that you have put the limit lid on. TAKE IT OFF.

Live free. 

Summer 2011. Limitless. 

Love. Meg.