As I close this thirty-one day chapter, I’ve learned depths of discipline, exploration, and expression.  More importantly, I’ve learned that I don’t need permission from anyone to pursue what I love.  I just need to do it.

In summary of this past month, my challenge for you is to:

• Become a better listener–of God, yourself and others
• Choose to forgive versus water the seed of unforgiveness
• Study others and your surroundings
• Embrace pain but not alone
• Not run from conflict and work at resolving it quickly
• Create memories
• Get out of your comfort zone
• Celebrate the small things — like electricity
• Tell your family you love them
• Decide to stop comparing yourself
• Laugh daily
• Find the good in the mundane
• Practice saying No
• Speak up for yourself
• Stop believing the lie: “You’re a fraud.”
• Get outside
• Learn by doing
• Not make excuses and own your responsibility
• Embrace the mess
• Stand firm
• Color outside the lines with Your Creator