Wake-Up Call

In her book "Fresh-Brewed Life" Nicole Johnson has a list to see if you need a wake-up call to a "Fresh-Brewed life":
                 * You yelled at your minister last Sunday, or ever.
                 * You fell asleep at your own party.
                 * You lobby for chocolate to be one of the four food groups.
                 * You called your best friend and started chatting, and they said, "Who is this?"
                 * The people you work with are asking when your next vacation is.
                 * Your kids look forward to going back to school.
                 * Your idea of a good time is a coma.
                 * You can't remember your last vacation.
                 * You agreed to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity.


Are you sleepwalking through your life?  I know that I can get into a robotic mode of living and doing what needs to get done.  Nicole Johnson has a quote in her book from "Succulent Wild Woman" by SARK.  I really like it.


"It is tempting to sleepwalk through life.  To tell half-truths, listen half-way, be half-asleep, drive with half-attention...Wake up!  We need you as an alive and awake woman, listening and contributing.  Wake up your creative genius and let it out into the world.  Wake up to your power and use it wisely.  Wake up  to your pain and investigate it.  Wake up the dull old parts that are hiding that are hiding from the light.  Wake up to love and let it flow through you."


There is so much that we have within us!  God knows it, He put it there.  The devil fears it, if we truly grasped all that we are...


For me that biggest thing that has held me back is fear.  Fear of what people would say or think.  Fear of failing.  Fear of not getting approval.  You can read books on overcoming fear, quote scripture but in the end its you verses your fear.  You are the one who actually has to step out from under that cloud and into  faith.  


In the movie Ambulance Girl there is a line that says (yes, I wrote it down...to fight against fear) "Fear is like a hologram.  It seems full of substance and depth until you move through it and discover it is an illusion."


It is not in the absence of fear that faith appears ~ it is because of and in spite of fear it appears.
It is in faith, even though I am afraid, I can truly live my life and not sleepwalk through it.  


One more quote from Nicole Johnson: "When fear gets the best of us, we settle for imitation."  


You are fearfully and wonderfully made (Ps. 139:14).  There is no one else like you in the world.  We need you to be you in the world.  Only you can touch the people around you.  Only you can walk out your story.


So, no more sleeping through your life, don't confuse that with napping.  Napping is gift from God ;) and I was once told one of the most spiritual things you can do.  Taking a break to get refueled is not the same as checking out and going to robot mode.


Get out there and have fun!


Have a fab day!
All my love ~
Jodi xoxo