Trusting the goal

I am a goal setter. Typically, when I set goals, I also outline ways to tend them. Essentially, I know I need to do what I can to make the goal become reality.

This spring, I had a goal make itself. As far as I know, the thought perhaps emerged from some of my thinking, my hopes, my dreams, but I see the goal as something that planned itself. Honestly, I struggle to see how or why I would make the goal myself. Looking back on Shannah's last post from April, I think it follows that well.

It is a trust issue. I believe the goal came from my heart and I believe that God essentially set the goal for me. Now, I even have a couple of my friends who believe the goal to be possible AND within my reach. They trust that I will make it happen.

There are other people, other factors, other everything at play here. But for now, I simply must trust that this goal was placed on my heart for a reason and that it is an obtainable goal.

This goal involves love. I struggle with the idea and concept of love. I know love exists. I trust the love of my family and of my close friends. I trust the love I have for them. I trust the love that I see among certain couples, including my parents. I struggle with the idea that love, romantic love, is to be a part of my life, my future. So, to obtain this goal, I must rediscover and develop trust in love.

This week, I have worked to that end. I am reading more about love. I am exploring what others have to say about love. I do it some for a book I am working on and some to help develop the faith, hope, and trust that I need to see love become fully a part of my life.

The first thing I turned to was I Corinthians 13:
"Faith, hope, and love; abide these three, and the greatest is love."

The GREATEST is LOVE!
That, I trust.