Safety first... And other life happenings

I've always loved the phrase, "better safe than sorry." I don't know where I learned it or at what age, although I want to say that my mother had a little something to do with it. I always say it in jest, but today I made a brilliant connection (with the help of the holy spirit), that's a little bit how I have lived my life. Dreaming big, but never actually following thru because I'm afraid of failing. The past couple of weeks I have been reading the book, In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day by Mark Batterson. This book is revolutionary to me right now. 2011 was a crazy year for me. I experienced my first year of marriage, started a new job, and bought our first house-- praise god for that last one. We celebrated the new year in our perfect new home (that we waited and prayed for) and I couldn't help but feel immense anticipation for 2012. As I've been reading this book, the holy spirit has been stirring and moving me in really loving and convicting ways. Every detail of our life cannot be controlled or expected (even when I try so hard for it to be) it is completely, beautifully unexpected. I have the most insane desire to design fashion, but have very little training and zero degree. I could continue to work a 9-5 job every day of my life and accept the fact that there are no fashion design schools close by and I would just be safer to stay where I'm at with my 401k. But I don't want to be safe. I want to pursue this innermost desire that I feel God has created, all while I seek Him. I have no intentions on quitting my day job, but I do have the most exciting adventure of starting what I should have started years ago, this year. Nothing should stop us from following our dreams no matter how small or big they may seem, life is going to happen whether we've planned it all out or not. This is the year of, "if not now, when?"

There are so many good things in store... Just wait and see.