INTENTIONAL MESS

Sitting in a quiet house over Memorial Day weekend, I have learned I don't necessarily like to be alone, but it's a necessity for my mental health. In those times when no one will be home but me, I will come to the end of myself.

I am having trouble figuring out what my next step is. The next best step, as some say, is eluding me right now. I just don't know what to do, how, and in what order to do it. Putting my thoughts on the page will hopefully help me figure out where to go.

I've taken the last several days and looking toward June, trying to figure out what I need to tackle first. I often let all the things I want to do, everything I want to collect, and everything I want to put into place overwhelm me. So I took a moment, stepped back, and let them all get jumbled up in a big ball in my imagination. I can then allow them to fall to the ground, gather them up, and place them in the proper order.

One of the things I'm praying about is my order to put them in. What order to accomplish. What order will allow me the most maximized outcome I can receive?

I want to figure out how to bring my strengths into everything, combine them, and let my faith guide them because I know that God can amplify who I am. He can magnify who He has created me to be. He is the only one who can make a joyful creation from my intentional mess.

One of the gifts of getting older is understanding and carefully considering every choice I make. Even though I have Context and Deliberative at the bottom of my strengths. (#33 and #34) They tell me I don't like to think about the past to decide about the past, present, or future because I have Ideation at number five.

Ideation for me can be highly chaotic if I don't understand when I'm actually using it. I CAN GET OVERWHELMED because I have all these ideas, plans, and things I want to do. But I understand that's what Ideation is for me. I can talk to it, tell it to settle down and get in place. So I can use it to make things easier instead of making things difficult.

In an instant, because I have Connectedness at number one, I can see how things have connected from the beginning to the end. That is the gift of this strength. This is why knowing these things about myself allows God to guide me and help me see when I'm lying face down in the wet basement.

Can you see how knowing and digging into your strengths will help you escape those dark places? A hard look at the intricacies of how you are created might help you stop making decisions that create such an intentional mess.

It has done that for me! Let me show you how it can help you clean up your intentional mess.

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