"In his book, Wide Awake, Erwin Raphael McManus helps us see the difference between being awake and being wide awake. It is the recognition that God is very active in your life and then to actively live that life. He says, “Living wide awake is about realizing that the world needs you to live up to your potential. There are others whose lives and future depend on your stepping up and living big. The better world you keep waiting for needs you to accept your life’s calling and responsibility, and then create it. The future needs you to dream God-sized dreams; these are the only kind God gets involved in.”
Love this! I found this on the site, "Faith and Fitness Magazine". I am loving this site more and more. This statement is so profound for me. Imagine that the world is waiting for you(me) to live up to your(my) potential and that there are others lives and future depend on your(my) stepping up and living big! This really hits home for me as I never thought of it that way. The life we live is not our own, nor for our own benefit..but it is for the benefit of others. How we live our fitness lives and even our faith, show others that there is a better way to live and feel about ourselves is a mission unto itself. Our calling isn't just for ourselves, but for our "neighbors". "If I can do it, then so can you!" Isn't that what we do here? That's what Elaine shows us in her book, "Why Delay Amazing?" It isn't about Elaine anymore...it is about reaching out to others and helping someone else along this path to health and fitness and even towards faith. Faith in God. Faith in ourselves. Faith in our new found friends. It is to empower each other to push towards a goal. We don't do this on our own! We are much more effective and successful as a community than as individuals.
Success is inevitable!
So are we dreaming some "God-sized" dreams? For ourselves? for our "community"? For others future?
Are we wide awake?
Today's eats was green smoothies (turned "brown" with blueberry's, but oh so yummy!) and left over chili and salmon and sweet potato.
Today's workout was HIIT and Abs.
Today's attitude: Great!
Today's pic: a work in progress...one day at a time!
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