Life in Brazil

dreams....

 

Last night at our cell group our initial conversation starter revolved around "dreams" for our lives.  Debora handed each of us a little piece of paper with these words at the top..."5 dreams for my life."  My list included these 5 things:

1. Get married
2. Write a book
3. Take a trip to Italy
4. Have children
5. Being a speaker for women's retreats and events

After we all wrote our lists Debora started reading through some scenarios where we had to begin elimiating some of our dreams....which made us prioritize the ones that were the most important.  Each time we all shared which dream we had marked off our list.  We had gone through a couple of rotations and then I shared my dream about writing a book which surprisingly enough garnered the most enthusiastic response from the rest of the group.  I don't think they expected that from me.....but truth be told it is a secret dream I have been carrying for a long time.  My hope is to make it a reality.  I guess I could also say that is part of the reason why I have this blog.....I'm "testing" the waters with my writing ability.  I know that I have a ways to go....but you never improve unless you practice so here I am.  Also I have been keeping journals that include entrees of everyday life as well as the working through of personal and spiritual issues.  At the beginning of this year I put together a list of goals that was published in my update letter that goes out to all my supporters and the very last goal was:

Develop my writing skills and pursue creating a piece of written work for possible publishing

When this will become a reality is simply in God's hands....however there are things that I am doing now to make this a reality.....like the practicing and developing stage by writing here on my blog.  Which brings me to the point of saying that our dreams really involve two individuals.....God and us.  We seek God, ask for His guidance and discernment.....but then we also have a role to play by actually taking the steps God impresses us to take....even if they are baby steps.

So I leave you today with something to think about.....What are your dreams and what are the baby steps you are taking in making those dreams a reality?

Let's try this again.......

Yesterday I posted a question to you in the hopes of gathering some information from my readers.  Unfortunately I only received 4 responses.  Now those responses gave some valuable input but I need some more feed back. 

So this time I've placed this nice link which goes to a simple one question survey.  You read the question click one of 5 possible response hit "finish survey" and you're done.  Simple. 

I did this because I know many of you don't like the hassel of trying to leave a comment on typepad....so this is easy.  Remember your responses are helping me to plan more interesting and relevant posts.  I would great appreciate your feedback.  Thanks.

So just click this link View Survey

a question for my readers.....

Happy Monday to you in your part of the world. 

I signed up for an online class this past weekend and the first prompt was delivered to my inbox this morning.  The class is called Beyond Blogging for Scrapbookers and even though I'm blogging primarily about my ministry in Brazil I thought it might be useful for some new ideas.

Having said that today's prompt talks about getting to really know our reader's in a better way so we can be posting things that are of interest to them.

So my question for you today is:

What kinds of things (other than) posts about the favela classes would you be interested in reading about?  Are there other aspects of my life as a missionary or life in general would you like to read about?

I would really appreciate you leaving a comment or response to this question.  I'm wanting to make my blog interesting to the readership out there in blog land so your feedback is extremely valuable to me.