During our last youth retreat we asked the students (and leaders) to graph their spiritual journey. We gave them graph paper and some markers and told them that we all have spiritual mountain tops and valleys. Playing some music we set them off to the task of self examination.
When I was getting this exercise set up for them I thought that I would try it out and I got a lot out of the exercise. As I went through it I found that I remembered things that I had taken for granted or forgotten. I had many eraser marks on my paper and my journey was filled with a ton of ups and downs. I was surprised where some of the dry times came and where I drew on God the most.
Take some time in the next little while and try this out. Find some paper and sketch out your spiritual journey. Then perhaps map out where you would like to be in a little while.
What are some ways that you could begin attaining your goal?
As I have struggled with trying to be more organized throughout the years and a better project planner, the one thing that I have come away with is that you need to know the next step. It is easy to know what outcome you want to see. It might even be easy to back down and break apart big goals. But what is your next step (that you could do today) to meeting the goals you have set for yourself?
Try it out!!!
