Put a laptop in this bear's paws (and a giant mug of coffee by his side) and this is me for the next month. I keep telling myself that a publishing deadline is a gift, not a chore, and it's the truth. I LOVE having this opportunity, even though it feels risky and impossible right now. Like almost anything I've ever done that mattered, the work standing between me and my goal seems insurmountable. I've been here before--final exams in college, studying for the bar exam the summer after law school, trying to plan a wedding in two months. It's usually the most important things that seem completely unattainable. But here's what else I know: in the words of my friend Jon from law school (who used to nap while watching televised golf while the rest of us studied frantically), Things tend to get done.I may have blogged about this before (probably around the time of my last impending deadline), but I'm happy to report that this maxim has never failed me. I'm leaning on it now. And in the moments I start to doubt, I remind myself of another bit of smart advice I heard from a guy I know: What is impossible with people is possible with God.
(When I woke up this morning, I told God that if he wants to stop by the cave sometime soon, I'm happy to squish over and make some room...)
With 2009 on the horizon, what are your impossible possibilities?
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My impossible possibilities? Renting a house with my mother in the most boring city in Michigan, adopting my 16-year-old niece and her two baby sisters, starting a Master's Program in youth ministry, hopefully starting a better paying job (in Michigan, go figure), securing two book contracts (God willing), writing my second novel and possibly a book about at-risk youth, and maybe just meeting the husband God has for me. What do you think? Too much? Whewww...
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