Gathering a Pile High

I'm 'a gathering.  I love me a good speaker and writer.  I have books piled all over my living room.  See, last night I decided to sort all my books by category and do a little dusting while I was at it.  I keep talking about writing on healthy relationships but I haven't quite got into a consistent groove yet.  By sorting my books I knew it would reveal what topics I tend to buy the most often (I say "buy" 'cause there's many a paper-bound that I have yet to actually read.  Note the book on the top left pile that was purchased four years ago and not read...no wonder I haven't been highly effective yet).

For anyone that knows me well, I think about relationships ALL the time.  I am able to integrate dating questions into my conversations with students; I am saddened by fatherlessness, broken marriages, self-image issues; I have gone through the ups & downs as a 30-ish single woman as I navigate this thing called LIFE; most importantly I want to change my generation and future generations and see us live countercultural to the world's media-saturated standards and instead find a biblical model of true love.  Agape.

I'm stumbled upon motivational speaker Jon Acuff when I was on the Dave Ramsey site.  He helped give me a bit 'ol encouragement with keeping up with a blog, sharing a message through talking about what we don't talk about, and that "there's ways to have a full-time job and a full-time dream" and "to have an extraordinary life in the middle of a very ordinary day".  Thank you Jon Acuff for this message.



We each have something that stirs us -- perhaps through the music we listen to or where we spend the most time or even what gets our blood boiling.  What's your dream?  Mine is to write and speak on healthy relationships.  Let us be doers and take action towards living it out.