Where Can Spirit Take You to Develop Your Heart's Work?

What is your passion? Do you dare to dream a life that lifts you high while others are uplifted too? Get goosebumps imagining what it would be like to share what you most enjoy doing? To expand upon the natural gifts that your maker gives you? How can you create this experience in your life now?

1. Discover your heart's work. We are each divinely made to be unique and a gift to ourselves and others. Decide what your talents and passions are and keep developing them NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES. Believe that guidance will come to you. "When the student is ready, the teacher will come." Work at increasing your knowledge, expanding your opportunities and listening to your highest self. Be prayerful in all you do, even the things you do not enjoy. Envision yourself being molded like a lump of clay into your ideal; what you are designed to become.
2. Look for growth and refinement during your darkest times. This is not a pollyannaish attitude, it is a true opportunity to experience how suffering and struggling will make you a seasoned person who is more prepared to face what life brings next. Depression, anxiety, illness, relationship problems, accidents, set-backs, poverty, will be the spice that rounds out your personal recipe. "In all things give thanks."  “God says to give thanks in everything. That doesn’t mean you need to give thanks FOR everything. You don’t need to give thanks FOR that bad day. Or FOR that bad relationship. Or being passed over at work. Financial hardship. Whatever it is – you are not to give thanks FOR the difficulties, but rather IN the difficulties. That is a very important distinction, and one I think we often miss. Giving thanks IN everything shows a heart of faith that God is bigger than the difficulties and that He can use them, if you approach Him with the right heart and spirit, for your good and His glory.” –Tony Evans
3. Listen to your life and listen to God. Pay attention to your dreams at night and the symbols they are providing. When you pray, ask for guidance and then be certain to spend time during the day listening to what is being sent your way. Which doors are closing and which are opening? Talk to friends you trust to encourage you, but also have conversations with strangers as you never know why someone came into your life. Your conversation with a stranger may also be changing their life for the better. And keep listening as situations change and new opportunities arrive.

About the author and her HeartWork Program:

Jeree' spent most of her career working with people of all ages who have various disabilities and life-challenges. She suffered two major depressions out of which her art and photography passions developed and she became more centered in the spiritual side of Christianity. She and her husband own Wild Destinations Photography and travel on a limited budget to photograph wild life and nature throughout the US, Canada, and soon much more of the world. Two years ago while praying for guidance to turn their photography business into a passion to help others and the planet, the Lord told her to create HeartWork, a volunteer program of Wild Destinations Photography to bring outdoor photography education and workshops to people of all disabilities and those recovering from illnesses and mental struggles. Visit www.wilddestinationsphotography.com to inquire about HeartWork's no-cost nature photography workshops for yourself or someone you know. Or call Jeree' at (530) 575-4800.