Action is Character.

What does that mean? I guess it's obvious that if we sit around and do nothing that our character - our personality and our values - are not going to take shape very quickly. I think that more than this, however, our actions give us purpose and continue to nudge us forth on the path that our lives are taking.

The paths that our lives are taking.
If each action is going to spur us on to where we are going to eventually end up, don't we want them to be meaningful, intentional actions? Perceiving the thought that way makes me want to be more intentional about BEING.

That's about as far as the thought has come yet in my head. It's so easy to think about actively pursuing purpose and much harder to put it into practice.

I know that for me living with purpose is living for an eternal purpose. I want so much for the people in my life to come to see they can live blamelessly and in complete freedom, serving a God who is perfect and will redeem this mess of a world in time. But then I have to go to work at Old Navy and seeing that heavenly purpose for living abundantly becomes much harder in the mundaneness of ringing up clothing. I'm trying to do this.

This summer my goal is to find God working in the mundaneness of my minimum wage job and the monotony of this suburban world. Life can mean so much more when we don't just let ourselves go through the motions we know so well. Intentional actions will help me to intentionally shape my characters into what I know God can make it. Easier said than done.

Let's do this thing.