Goals

It seems like everyone around me is spending a significant amount of time talking about their life goals. Their goals are so big. So audacious. So selfish. Their goals are hopes and dreams for their own lives.

My goals have changed so much over the last 5 years.

Here were my goals 5 years ago...

Be an executive pastor.
Save $100,000 in my retirement.
Be close to Senior Pastoring.

That's it. Shallow, huh? Stupid, I know. I laugh just reading it. What an idiot.

Here are my goals now...

Walk more intimately with God today than yesterday.
Know more about Holly today than I did yesterday.
Raise godly, respectful, submitted children who become two men and a woman of God who use their gifts to serve God and serve people, and who also want to spend the rest of their lives being around Holly and I.
Two specific people in my life who I want to see in an intimate relationship with God.
Try to be faithful to what God asks me to do.

My goals have a much different tone now than they did 5 years ago. I think about how much has had to happen to get me to this place. God is gracious and very, very merciful.