Imagine your ideal life

The prompt for this week (from The Writer Within by Nina Karnikowski) says we can’t create what we can’t see, which means we must allow ourselves to dream of better lives and worlds. Prompt 4: Spend 10 minutes describing your ideal life, including purpose, relationships, work, travel, home, creativity, health and finances. Then spend 10 minutes writing about things you could start doing right now, and in the months and years ahead, to move you towards that vision. Oh boy. What is my ideal life…? I guess it’s one of love, service and purpose. Of living each day knowing that what I am doing is contributing to a better tomorrow, or rather, nudging things in that direction. I’m not in it for the money. I would like just enough to keep things comfortable and not so much that I think I am somehow better than the rest of the world. I also work because I want to help my husband. I don’t want him to shoulder the financial burden all by himself. It’s too stressful. I love walking with Jesus. I…