Daily writing prompt

What is your mission?

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My mission is to cultivate my mind and my heart so that they flourish with hope and become a light for others. I strive daily to cultivate my thoughts, desires, and emotions so that they grow into a beacon of hope within me that others can see and be inspired by.

Whatever you cultivate and grow in your mind and heart will determine your quality of life. Cultivating anger, rebellion, and confusion will grow guilt and pain within you, but cultivating love, joy, and peace will produce a happy life. 

So how do you cultivate your heart and mind to produce a beautiful life? You tend and guard them — you seed and weed. You plant and nurture pure and productive feelings and thoughts within you. Then you guard those inner tender plants so that they can grow and flourish, keeping them protected from the weeds of polluted and destructive thoughts, feelings, and desires.

Your mind and heart — your choice! You can work to turn your heart and mind into good ground for growing the fulfilling, life-giving fruit of God’s Spirit. Or you can let your heart and mind grow the weeds, seeds, and deeds of darkness and self-focus. What kind of inner gardener are you?

Continually cultivate the humble approach to God so you can hear and obey His prompting throughout the day. Here’s a poem I woke up with and cultivated in my heart and mind this morning:

Cultivate space
For God’s Spirit
To freely flow
In your heart
And through your mind
And to replace
Self-focus
With Christ’s presence.
Then you will find
A different kind
Of life,
Much greater than
Human knowing,
Growing
Within you.

It’s much easier to be trapped by business as usual than it is to cultivate the ability to be daily led by God’s Spirit. To believe that Jesus is alive and present while acting like He’s dead and gone has been a major flaw in popular Christianity. It’s time to grow beyond that flaw!