• Home
  • About the Writer
  • Contact Me
  • My Favorite Quotes
    • My Cool Word List
  • Heather’s Reflections Photography
  • Scribblings by Moonlight

A Writer's Reflections

~ Perspectives of a thinker, booklover, and follower of Jesus

A Writer's Reflections

Tag Archives: mission

You Were Born Great

22 Sunday May 2016

Posted by Heather in Christian Living, God, Spiritual Reflections

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

born great, God, God's plan, greatness, life, mission, purpose, with God all things are possible

14758897182_f76465bd8e_z

You’ve probably heard the saying, “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” (That was William Shakespeare, and I admit that I had forgotten who said it and had to look it up.)

Well, I’d like to take a different stance and say that everyone is born great. Yes, some may achieve greatness or have extra greatness thrust upon them at some point in their lives, but all people are born with greatness of some kind inside of them.

Everyone is a treasure in God’s eyes, each one of us special to Him for some unique reason. Our value in His eyes is not based on our outward appearance or our personality or accomplishments. God looks at the heart and He values and loves us each equally. You are not special because of your particular personality and achievements–He gave you those particular personality and achievements because you are special to Him. He intentionally designed you with the unique facets that make up who you are. And that includes your own individual form of greatness–capabilities and talents and dreams that only you can bring to pass.

Before the earth was even in existence, God saw you and designed you carefully and lovingly to be who you are. He gave you your unique hair color, your eye color, your body type, your abilities, your personality, your likes and dislikes, and he planned out the story of your life to the smallest detail (Psalm 139:13-16).

You were designed to be great and to do great things. All you have to do is decide that you are not going to give up or live for yourself, and instead purpose to live out fully everything God has planned for you.

Everyone has the potential of greatness in their lives. You may not be able to change your appearance, or your social status, or your career situation, but that’s not what is truly important. What is important is your heart, who you are because of how God designed you. And your heart is moldable, changeable, capable of great transformation. A heart transformed into God’s image can accomplish great things that would be impossible to achieve otherwise.

We can never imagine in our natural human minds the things God has made possible for us (1 Corinthians 2:9-13). But through His Spirit living and moving in us, all of that becomes visible to our spiritual eyes so that we are more than able to accomplish great things for God, wherever we are and whoever we are.

With God all things are possible.

If you’ve ever wanted to do something great, to make your life count for something, but you feel discouraged and weighed down by the cares and monotony of everyday life, you’re definitely not alone. But don’t let those feelings of inadequacy and despair become your reality. While you’re hunkered down feeling defeated and useless, God’s just waiting for you to look up and realize He is there, His arms outstretched and hands overflowing with all the blessings and power that you could ever want!

He’s given you the enabling, created you with the talents and capabilities that you need for your specific mission in life. Sure, you may not be able to command the attention of an audience with your oratory eloquence, you may not know the first thing about playing the piano or the mandolin, you may have failed miserably in calculus, but maybe that doesn’t matter a bit, because maybe you simply don’t need those particular skills for your life mission.

Nobody can do everything; but everybody can do something. You are the best there can be at being you, and at doing what God has appointed you to do.

Ask God to lead you into your personal, unique life purpose–He will, without a doubt–and then get out and do it!

And next time you think that you are not doing much in the way of anything, stop–and remember what is possible through the Creator of the universe and who you are because of Him.

~~~

Hope you enjoyed this post! Thanks so much for reading and please feel free to add your own personal thoughts in the comments below!

Photo credit: Lucie Commans

Personal Blogging Goals for the New Year

07 Thursday Jan 2016

Posted by Heather in Random Reflections

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

blog, blogging goals, blogging101, Christian Living, life, mission, new year, perspective, purpose, writing

Happy New Year, folks!

I’ve undertaken a challenge to myself to redefine and focus in on my blogging goals for this new year. Part of that will be going through WordPress.com’s “Blogging 101” course through January 22. Not every day’s assignment is getting a post out . . . it’s more of a challenge to step back and look at the big picture of why I have a blog and analyze what I want to accomplish with it in the near future. And that will include a mix of blogging and fine-tuning the behind-the-scenes aspects of my blog and the blogging community.

I think this challenge will be a profitable and clarifying time for me as I focus on my blogging goals and aspirations for this upcoming year, and help you, as my readers, to see where my aim is and have a clearer idea of what this is all about.

I want to start out by outlining my aspirations and hopes for this little corner of the internet.

Here is my long-standing blogging dream: I would love for my blog to be a place where I can share my personal and unique perspective on life with the results of cultivating my own heart and mind, both mentally and spiritually, while also inspiring and stimulating my readers to reach higher in all areas of their lives and to take hold of their divinely-appointed purpose.

That’s a high goal. And I’m pretty sure I won’t attain that without some degree of difficulty. But knowing my goal, and writing it out in plain and simple terms is a great way of focusing my attention and motivating me to actually reach it.

I have a feeling that my blog purpose/mission will adapt and evolve over time, so don’t get stuck with a rigid idea of what will happen here. While it is beneficial to have a general idea of my blogging goals, I still want to be flexible and free to go with the flow and follow whatever God is doing in my heart and mind.

I would love to hear any thoughts or suggestions about my blog and goals, so please feel free to comment!

God bless you all in the new year!

Heather Headshot

Hey, my name is Heather - writer, muser, book-lover, photographer, Jesus follower, among many other things. Welcome to my blog, where I talk about life, books, random thoughts, and whatever God has been teaching me recently. I hope that you'll stay a while and I'd love to hear from you!

Learn more about me...

Social

  • View awritersreflectionsblog’s profile on Facebook
  • View bookworm418’s profile on Twitter
  • View heather.418’s profile on Instagram
  • View bibliophile418’s profile on Pinterest
  • Flickr

Enter your email address to follow my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 351 other followers

Follow A Writer's Reflections on WordPress.com

Recent Posts

  • Dear Blog, It’s Not You, It’s Me December 6, 2019
  • Five Simple Everyday Ways to Be Intentional (Part 2) October 10, 2019
  • Being Intentional – A Lifestyle Change (Part 1) September 22, 2019
  • Quote of the Week | My Job is to Love People August 1, 2019
  • Don’t Get Stuck in the “Aspiring” Mindset May 27, 2019

Top Posts

  • List of God's Promises on Various Issues - PDF Download
    List of God's Promises on Various Issues - PDF Download
  • Dear Blog, It's Not You, It's Me
    Dear Blog, It's Not You, It's Me
  • Fall Ramblings
    Fall Ramblings
  • Quote of the Week | Herman Melville
    Quote of the Week | Herman Melville
  • Trusting God: What Does it Look Like?
    Trusting God: What Does it Look Like?
  • Top Ten Villains
    Top Ten Villains
  • Quote of the Week | Elisabeth Elliot
    Quote of the Week | Elisabeth Elliot
  • Slow Down and Live in the Moment
    Slow Down and Live in the Moment
  • Quote of the Week | Too Much?
    Quote of the Week | Too Much?
  • Crossing Over the Great Wall of Fear
    Crossing Over the Great Wall of Fear

Recent Comments

Heather on Dear Blog, It’s Not You,…
seekingdivineperspec… on Dear Blog, It’s Not You,…
Heather on Dear Blog, It’s Not You,…
Virginia on Dear Blog, It’s Not You,…
Heather on Being Intentional – A Li…

Archives

Categories

Tags

about me angels anxiety autumn baby bible blogging101 booklover Books bookworm camp change Christ Christian Christian Living Christmas christmas spirit Christ the Lord compassion devotions dream dreams Emmanuel extraordinary faith fall fear God God's love God's presence God's promises good will history holiday Identity inspiration introvert Jesus joy life live in the moment Love merry christmas ministry mission mood musings new year peace people personal personality problems purpose Quote of the Week quotes ramblings Random Reflections reading reflections rejoice relationships Savior Spiritual Reflections summer tidings of great joy time traits true love Trust trusting god truth valentine's day with God all things are possible writing

Search my blog

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

A Word A Day

Word of the Day
Word of the Day provided by TheFreeDictionary.com

Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day provided by TheFreeDictionary.com

Article of the Day
Article of the Day provided by TheFreeDictionary.com

This Day in History
This Day in History provided by TheFreeDictionary.com

Today's Birthday
Today's Birthday provided by TheFreeDictionary.com

Today's Holiday
Today's Holiday provided by TheFreeDictionary.com

Connect on Social Media

  • View awritersreflectionsblog/’s profile on Facebook
  • View bookworm418’s profile on Twitter
  • View heather.418’s profile on Instagram
  • View bibliophile418’s profile on Pinterest
  • Flickr

Archives

Categories

Recent Posts

  • Dear Blog, It’s Not You, It’s Me December 6, 2019
  • Five Simple Everyday Ways to Be Intentional (Part 2) October 10, 2019
  • Being Intentional – A Lifestyle Change (Part 1) September 22, 2019
  • Quote of the Week | My Job is to Love People August 1, 2019
  • Don’t Get Stuck in the “Aspiring” Mindset May 27, 2019
  • Quote of the Week | Peace in the Storm April 29, 2019
  • On Change: It’s Not Easy But It’s Good April 17, 2019
  • Negativity: The Cancer of the Soul April 6, 2019
  • Like and Follow A Writer’s Reflections on Facebook April 2, 2019
  • You Can’t Change People Overnight, and That’s Okay March 27, 2019

Blog Stats

  • 7,025 hits

Pages

  • About the Writer
  • Contact Me
  • My Cool Word List
  • My Favorite Quotes

Photo Credits

Credits for header photos, from left to right: "Books & Books," by Jeremy Piehler; "一日三秋," by Silvia Sala; "Untitled," by Luiza Bissolli; "Book of old times," by titouan russo; and "Typewriter B/W....now write the story.," by geishaboy500.

Create a website or blog at WordPress.com

Cancel
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy