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    Life Mapping with Jesus: Finding Your Place in God’S Eternal Plan
    Life Mapping with Jesus: Finding Your Place in God’S Eternal Plan
    Life Mapping with Jesus: Finding Your Place in God’S Eternal Plan
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    Life Mapping with Jesus: Finding Your Place in God’S Eternal Plan

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    Time and circumstances are keeping us from becoming the people we were created to be. We all need a way to filter out the unimportant activities and to identify the important activities that will lead us to the path to our best future. Admiral Bidcoff once said, We live our lives as if we were involved in a series of disasters rather than in an orderly process to achieve the natural results we desire. Life mapping is the orderly process that leads us to achieve the natural results we desire and deserve. The reward for investing your time in the creation of your Life Map can be better than any other use of that time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateMar 14, 2014
    ISBN9781490828121
    Life Mapping with Jesus: Finding Your Place in God’S Eternal Plan
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    foG is a friend of God and his meat is to do the will of God.

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      Life Mapping with Jesus - foG

      Copyright © 2014 foG.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2811-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2812-1 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014903698

      WestBow Press rev. date: 3/13/2014

      Table of Contents

      The Gathering

      The Life Mapping Process

      Beliefs

      Principles

      Goals

      Activities

      To Do List

      How To

      Appendix

      Sample Budgets

      Suggested Reading List

      We live our lives as if we were involved in a series of disasters rather than in an orderly process to achieve the natural results we desire. – Admiral Bidcoff

      If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. – Yogi Berra

      And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, ‘Moses, Moses.’ And he said, ‘Here am I.’ – Exodus 3:4

      Chapter 1 – The Gathering

      Q uiet! Can we hear it? What calls our hearts? Something deep inside is stirring. Will we listen, will we understand, and will we act? If we are ready we will!

      We are amazing creatures! No one else has our unique traits, skills, abilities and capacity for acquiring wisdom. With them we can do anything, but what will we do?

      To put the question another way: What is the most important thing we will do in our lifetimes? Some might answer; successfully raise children, have an enjoyable career or find the cure for cancer. These are all good answers. But, are they really the most important? Will they bring us happiness and peace of mind?

      Mencius, a Chinese Confucian and contemporary of Aristotle, was once asked an interesting question by his disciple Kung-too.

      All are equally men, but some are great men, and some are little men–-how is this?

      Mencius replied, Those who follow that part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow that part which is little are little men. Let a man first stand fast in the supremacy of the nobler part of his constitution, and the inferior part will not be able to take it from him. It is simply this which makes the great man. Thus we must discover our nobler part, or as Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) said, Let each become all that he was created capable of being. Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. - John 4:34, should we do less?

      Life Mapping is a process that helps us reach our full potential. It helps us remove the conflicts that separate us from becoming the person we were created to be. These conflicts exist because of the inconsistencies in what we think about, what we believe, and ultimately what we do. It is these conflicts that confine and confuse us and keep us from becoming the person we are capable of becoming. When the conflicts are gone, we feel whole. It is a healing process that allows us to reach our nobler part. We learn who we are and how we fit into this world. It is a process that calls those seeking their nobler part. It is The Gathering of our nobler parts.

      What have we lost?

      Have we noticed that Americans have become angry? For more than half of the twentieth century we could walk down the street and receive pleasant greetings from almost everyone. Advertisements featured smiling people. Early television was dominated by shows like Ozzie and Harriet. Ozzie always had a smile on his face, even when he was mischievous. Sometime during the period from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, our mood changed. Was it the Vietnam War? Are we angry with ourselves for being in it or losing it? Are we angry that some of our heroes were assassinated, John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King? Whatever the reason, notice the results. Start looking at advertising, listening to some of the hard driving modern music, the way people drive their cars, or the looks people give us when we walk down the street. As Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew put it, The thing I notice (with today’s ballplayers) is that they don’t seem to be having as much fun as we used to. Even our high priced entertainers seem mad at the world. Many of them act out this feeling in the way they perform and conduct their lives. It is not a pretty picture. If we have to be tough to survive, that will be the image we project.

      Madison Avenue calls it attitude! Is this how a civilized society should act? Why are we so angry? Why do we fly off the handle when things don’t go our way? Isn’t the average American better off now then during the 1930s? Maybe some people feel guilty they have so much. Maybe our sincere desire to do a good job has diminished. Maybe, we now expect people to look out for themselves, so we must be tough and look out for ourselves. Could our anger be a result of a feeling that no one else cares about us? Are we alone? Is it isolationism at its worst?

      David Myers, psychologist from Hope College in Michigan, tells us that when it comes to happiness, External circumstances matter surprisingly little, whether you’re wealthy or physically disabled matter so much less than you’d guess. He researched thousands of studies on happiness to determine who is happy and why. The results of his work are found in his book The Pursuit of Happiness. Happy people should exhibit happy behavior. The average American’s behavior during the last fifty years does not suggest that we are happy. This is true even though we have more of the external trappings and generally better circumstances than those living in the prior fifty years. Thus, works like The Pursuit of Happiness are leading us toward the answer. We must look within ourselves if we are to find happiness. We must change our attitudes. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. - Proverbs 17:22.

      Where is our Vision?

      America has lost its way. We no longer have a vision of our future, nor the visionaries who could lead us to it. Things are changing so rapidly that most of us do not take the time to look past the crisis we are currently facing. Survival so preoccupies us that we run from the beast that chases rather than toward the goal of future happiness. If we are to find happiness, it will be a vision that serves as the beacon to lead us there. But who will create this vision?

      People feel lost and dissatisfied with their lives. Mothers are juggling careers and families, students are graduating without a sense of a career path, and the baby boomers are turning sixty-five unable to see the meaning in their lives. The Life Mapping process is a tool that is desperately needed in America today. During the past fifty years, divorce rates have risen, adolescent violence has increased, corporate crime has become routine and the number of people living in poverty continues to rise, uncontrolled. This is only the tip of the iceberg, the part we can readily see. How could we ever really know the misery and desperation people are feeling, just below the surface they let us see? People have no safe place for their visions, except deep within their own hearts, the only place no one else can enter and destroy it. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. - John 16:33, this is the vision that will lead us out of our hopeless state.

      Our past and our future.

      Understanding who we are, who we are capable of becoming and how we fit into this world will require us to step back and look at the bigger picture. We need to understand that we are dependent upon the delicate balances in nature. If one small element, such as

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