Of Pens and Paper: Sometimes I have to stop and wonder if I'm using w...

Of Pens and Paper: Sometimes I have to stop and wonder if I'm using w...: Sometimes I have to stop and wonder if I'm using what God has given me to its highest potential? Do I just constantly take from Him and hoa...

Sometimes I have to stop and wonder if I'm using what God has given me to its highest potential?  Do I just constantly take from Him and hoard it unto myself?  God gives me health- do I use that to help the ones that are sick and dying, physically or spiritually?  God has given me friends and family- do I use that to comfort the lonely and give friendship to the overlooked, the uncool, the outcast?  God has given me sunny days- do I soak it up in myself or do I box it up in a smile and pass it on to help clear away the rainclouds in someone else's day?  To be honest, sometimes I get the opinion that life is all about me; I seem to think that God placed me on this earth because I am just that special.  How sad, how extremely sad.  The sole reason I was placed upon this planet was so that I can praise God and help my fellow earth-inhabitants.  When I think about it like that, it kind of changes the perspective on the all-important ME, doesn't it?  "Lord, make me Your Servant.  Take all that I am and all that I have and use it for You! Amen."   

My very first blog.  Hmm...how does it feel?-exciting and scary are two words that come to mind.  Why those two words?  Well, any new blog is exciting.  It is like a new journal, full of empty pages just waiting to be filled with thoughts and words.  (Oh, how I do love words!)  But why is it scary?  Perhaps because there is a certain responsibility that now comes along with the blog.  A responsibility to make sure that everything I write is uplifting and beneficial.  May my blog never be used as a means of slander or complaining, gossiping or lying, bragging or depression.  May my blog never be focused on me---but on Who lives within me!