I have been so blown away with the support and love I have been shown with this blog. I never thought that within a week I would have 100+ daily readers from 8 different countries on 4 continents. I mean, I am just a 22 year old girl sitting in the guest room in her parents house, sharing what I think. So thank you to every person who has read, messaged me, left comments, and supported me! I am so awed by the kindness I have been shown.
But. Today I found myself constantly refreshing my stats page to see who had read my post and where they were from. I was obsessing over it. I realized that my life, and really all of our lives, are constantly lived by numbers. The numbers in your bank account, the numbers on the scale, on your clothes tag, the number of followers on social media, your GPA, etc., we constantly look to numbers for validation.
Here's the thing though, is I don't want to write this blog for the numbers. I don't want to live my life for the numbers. I want to write this blog to organize what I think and how I feel, and give encouragement to those who may be experiencing or thinking similar things. I want to live my life by breathe-taking moments, not numbers, unless it is counting the stars, or the number of steps walking toward the person you love, or the number of scars you have from crazy adventures! Those are the only numbers I ever want to be living by, because those other ones can decrease, they can be taken away, but the number of breathe-taking moments in your life, those cannot be taken, they can only increase.
So I have a challenge for all of us as we go into the weekend: Instead of living life by the numbers, let's try to live life by the breathe-taking moments. See how many you have this weekend and then come back and share them with me! I want to relish and celebrate those beautiful moments with y'all! Good luck!
I will follow up later from this post and let y'all know how this challenge is for me and share my own breathe-taking moments! I am already excited for whatever amazing moments those will be!
Jeremiah 29:11 Day 16
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