Blog 1

In this first blog I want to begin by looking at:  

Mediocrity verses excellence. 

Which life do you want to live?

 

When the status quo of life no longer satisfies the longing and hunger of your heart, when everything in you cries out ‘there must be something more’, in a culture where faith is not popular nor deemed as appropriate or heralded as a mark of a champion, it will take audacious faith and courage to move from mediocrity to excellence in all facets of life.     

Audacity is defined as:  intrepid boldness, bold or arrogant disregard of normal restraints, adventurous, and marked by originality.  

I like the last bit of the definition:  Marked by originality.  In a global society that no longer celebrates originality and boldness, I continue to cling to the notion of being marked by originality, I have always been adventurous and I am not fond of restraints.  How about you?  I think that having the audacity of hope along with audacious faith is living outside the box of mediocrity.  To have society define the accepted norm for me is neither fulfilling nor meaningful.  For me to accept what culture says is the true way to happiness falls far short of what I know to be real and genuine.

I hope I did not lose your interest when I mentioned audacious faith.  I realize that there are many different belief systems that may be represented by my blog readers, and it is not my desire to use this format to proselytize you or to bring up points of contention in different belief systems.  My desire is to bring to your awareness the concept of immersing yourself in audacious hope.  I will do that through my faith system and you can choose to or not to incorporate that into your frame of reference however you would like.

Hope is defined as:  to cherish a desire with anticipation, trust, to desire with expectation of obtainment, to expect with confidence.  

Have you lost your ability to cherish something, to desire something with anticipation, or to trust?  How are you doing with expecting something with confidence? How would it look to combine the definitions of audacity and hope?  Shall we take a peak…  

Audacious Hope:  Intrepid boldness to cherish a desire with anticipation, bold disregard of normal restraints to desire something with expectation of obtainment, adventurous expectation with confidence. 

  Wow, what would it feel like to have audacious hope?  Is it possible?  Could it happen?   Can you reach for that?  In future blogs we will look at how this could happen in the life of any ordinary person that is living in an earth-suit of extraordinary possibilities. 

 That is you and that is me. 

 For now, hold on to that definition of audacious hope.   

I am reaching toward Audacious Hope with you.   

 See you next time…. Sojourner 13