One Million Dollar Happiness?

You ever find yourself thinking......about absolutely nothing. I have been finding myself in this situation very much lately.

In this past year i found myself discovering a total different plan for my future. As a child i would always find myself making future goals for myself & to be honest i had high expectations. One goal that really stands out to me was when i was 15 i decided to make a goal for myself. Taking a piece of paper i wrote down what i had planned for my future. I had given myself 4 years to have built up a Company that would make me a millionaire before the age of 19. High expectations?

Well in the next 3 years i found myself having gone through over 4 business and moving on to the next ( BC Media, AB Online Sources, Arbor Woods Lawn service & more, But only to find myself getting close to the dead line of my goal. It was the winter of 2008 and i new if i wanted to make my dream come true i needed to sit down and get serious, a month later i found myself with a Advertising agency called Aidem Design. With a lot of work and commitment the company was afloat. It was a little shaky at first but then i started to see the piece fall into place. With in 3 months the company was on the road to success, With a weekly gross of 1,500 dollars i felt i was finally almost there.

But what i didn't realize was the closer i got to success in the world the further i found myself from satisfaction. I wasn't happy. That might not make sense to some of you reading this, But I found my goal becoming my master. My life was devoted to becoming what i wrote on that piece of paper 4 years before. Around this time a freind of mine asked me if i would like to join him in a trip to visit a old friend of ours And i needed a vacation so i thought why not. But what i didn't know was at this time my old friend was planting a church in a lower income area. I went to his church that Sunday morning & the message he spoke that day changed me. It help me realize what i have been missing in my life. I felt i had it all..... but it was in that moment that i realized everything in this world can not compare to that one thing i was missing.

Luke 16:13 "No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

And i found this true in my life, I could not serve the lord and peruse my goal as well. But the joy that came when i decided to follow the Lord fully was worth more then 1,000,000 dollars x10.

One year later i found myself graduated from the MCM Ministry School working as the Media Director for a small church just one year old. The church that changed my life forever. And in the next few weeks i will be putting together the material to begin the first year of Element Academy as the director of the school. It wasn't easy but with the lords help i made it to where i am today.

The goal for my life now is to show others how to find the simple joy that changed my life one year ago.