I’m a Freaking Loser. Or am I?

A few weeks ago I stepped out in faith and shared my goals for 2009 like I do every year. One of the biggest goals I listed that was hard for me to share was “Go on a mission trip out of the country. No idea how this will ever happen financially.”

See, I don’t set goals or share goals unless I am really freaking serious about them. I mean it. At the end of the year, anything on my goals list that I didn’t accomplish makes me feel like a loser.

For example, in 2008 I listed several goals that were BIG, HAIRY, and AUDACIOUS for me. “Ride in the Hotter than Hell 100 bike race.” Man I’m a loser…I didn’t accomplish the most simple goal, “read two books on fatherhood.” Pathetic.

Setting and sharing my crazy goals is a way of making sure I go for it! The public accountability for me is a driving force as I work to acheive these goals.

Back to the mission trip for 2009 goal. Sometimes, I share a goal knowing that the goal can only be accomplised if GOD takes charge.

With this mission trip goal, he did. Within hours of posting my 2009 goal list, someone had e-mailed me and offered to pay in full for me to go out of the country on a mission trip. I can’t share who or where yet…but I can say this:

GOD is INCREDIBLE and He often works through people whom you love deeply.