Preparing for the Journey

It's been a long time coming. Years, though I didn't know it until just recently. Within the last several weeks, however, the realization that I wanted to do more with my life than sit in a studio or office completing the same tasks everyday became so face slappingly evident that I knew that I had to make major, major changes.

I'm gritting my teeth, now, just waiting for that chain breaking moment to finally arrive. It's coming. I can feel it.

Don't get me wrong. I am appreciative of all of the work opportunities that I've had so far, even the time I spent scrubbing the stools in elementary school boys' restrooms. My skills have truly been diversified. I've learned a lot. However, there comes a time in everyone's life when talk becomes ineffective and the bucket list needs to start being emptied.

Even as a kid, I always instinctively knew that I was not meant to have a run-of-the-mill, nine to five, office job. A doctor, a marine biologist, an animation artist, a photo journalist, a teacher . . . not one of my "when I grow up" dreams ever included a traditional office setting.

So . . . I'm making changes. I'm moving onward, towards a purpose beyond that of just making a living. Sure, I still have to eat, pay my bills and put a little away for when my teeth fall out, but I know who will provide. He's got me covered.

Matthew 6:25-26 25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?