Today I begin a journey. Today I make a commitment. It's 40 days long. I am going to read through and ponder Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life". I know this book came out over a decade ago and it was super popular with Christians all over the world. Churches were doing the study together. Everyone was on the purpose driven bandwagon. I wasn't ready to embark on this particular journey back then. But today, at age 37, newly single after 15 years of marriage, a little banged-up and worn, craving direction and purpose and a life that is more than surviving, I am open to what God will show me. And I expect great things - wondrous, wisdom-y things to come from this journey. Proverbs 11:28 (Msg) says "A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree." Am I the only one who thinks that sounds really good? I want my life to be like a flourishing tree! A wise man I once knew told me, "We are either green and growing or ripe and rotting." I definitely want the green and growing!
Now, anyone who knows me will know that doing anything 40 days in a row is a high goal for me, as consistency is not my strongest suit. But I am going to give it the "ol' college try" as they say and go for it. And I thought it might be good to chronicle this journey and share what I am learning as I go, thus the creation of this new blog - Living BeauTIFFleigh. (BTW, the blog's name comes from a combo of my name, Tiffany Leigh, and my desire to live beautifully.) So, that's the background on what this is all about. And so now, the journey begins....
