If you’re here, and you want to know more about where Live Your Purpose came from, you’re in the right spot 🙂 Ashleigh & I thought it would be cool for each of us to write about this design from our own perspectives. We both are learning the exact same thing, just in completely different ways, so, I’m writing this from my perspective and then part 2 will be from her’s!
Anyways, I have so many thoughts (shocking, right?), so let’s get to it. So many things I have learned and am still learning. So many things I want to share. But, I will start with this, I love all of our designs… but this one may be my favorite (I know I say that about everything, but believe me this time). Not because of the cute style, or color, or the way that the crewneck fits, but because of the heartache, struggle, and growth in my life that created it. It speaks to a piece of my heart that is still trying to figure this thing out. It speaks to a piece of my heart that aches to understand but chooses to trust anyway. It speaks to a piece of my heart that gives me the hope that I need to walk faithfully each day. And it speaks to exactly where I find myself and that makes it all the more special to share with those of you who may find yourselves in that very same spot.
Wrapped up in just three words (live your purpose) is so much faith, joy, trust, tears, and questions, but most importantly hope. It is difficult to adequately put into words what the Lord has been cultivating in my heart in this season of my life, but when I sat down to design a few months ago, in less than an hour, a once blank google doc, was filled with phrases, verses, and thoughts that all centered in on this idea of purpose and staying faithful one day at a time. I just sat, stared at my computer screen, as tears flowed down my cheeks, because I knew that these were not my words. The Lord is so clearly using what Ashleigh and I are walking through to mold and shape this design and message.
I think we have all have had moments or seasons in our lives that we wonder the significance or importance of. We wonder if what we’re doing even matters at all, because it surely doesn’t feel like it sometimes. We so easily fall into the lie that if we don’t have a huge platform, aren’t changing millions of lives, and don’t land our dream job within a year of graduating, that we have somehow failed to make it in this world. Why? Because we so easily mistake God’s definition of purpose for the world’s.
But, I have found that the Lord says, be faithful to me. He slows us down, because he has work to do in us. Can I just say a lifetime, by the way? A lifetime of faithfulness is what we’re after here. There is peace and protection in God not giving us exactly what we want when we want it. Protection from ourselves and what we think we can handle when we just aren’t ready yet. How great is our God that He is faithful in giving us what we need when we need it? We can trust Him.
Living our purpose is actually created through staying faithful in the small, everyday moments. A definition that we aren’t always crazy for. Why? Because it’s unglamorous, sometimes hidden, and it can be painful. But, faithfulness matters to the Lord and it should matter to us. He notices and he cares.
So, with all of that being said, to Live Your Purpose is to trust my dear friend, that there is incredible purpose within you. A purpose that remains constant through every changing season. And this is to remain faithful to the calling that has been placed upon your life. To love the Lord your God with all of your heart and to serve Him all the days of your life. I encourage you to stay faithful in stewarding whatever it is that He has placed in front of you for this time – no matter how “small” or “insignificant” it may seem. Challenge yourself to uncover every avenue that the Lord has entrusted to you, and immerse yourself in it. Take it step by step, and day by day, and in each small step of obedience, a lifetime of faithfulness is created. Trust His heart for you, friend and pursue it with all of your heart.
I am cheering you on,
AllisonÂ