InnerTeub

A former classmate of mine, Jolawn of SpelHouseLove.com, recently blogged about the developing her “100 Life Goals,” a concept taken from the pastors at The Courageous Church. She writes about it in detail here, but the basic gist is:

These 100 goals are stretch goals. Some are short term, and several are long term and may take a lifetime to complete. Setting these goals requires me to really check my motivation in a lot of areas.

Why am I doing this? Well, since faith is the evidence of things hoped for, I need to write down the things that I hope for. If I don’t have a God-ordained plan for myself, I will follow the plan my job has laid for me, or my spouse or my children have for me, and it won’t be my own plan.

One reason Jolawn’s post struck a cord in me is that it contains a reference to my absolute favorite quote from the Bible:

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen“(Heb.11:1)

I love everything alluded to in this passage: the idea that hope has a substance, a weight, and that weight provides us the evidence that the world really might be all that we dream it might be. And I love incorporating into this idea the notion of setting goals for ourselves, adding accountability to our beliefs, challenging us to become the architects of our own lives.

This would have been a really interesting exercise to do as part of pre-marital counseling, but since we’re a leeeeeetle bit beyond that point, it seems as that it will be a part of the ongoing discussion The Boss and I have about who we are, and who we want to be when we grow up, and how we want to get there.