This is a quote from the book of 2 Samuel in the old tes­ta­ment of the bible. Through Octo­ber and Novem­ber, I was attend­ing a bible study at my church study­ing the life of David. One of the day’s home­work was about this verse. “and David was danc­ing before the Lord with all his might.” At first, I read over it and blew past it. Then, when I went back, I thought about how it must feel to be doing some­thing with all his might. Then, I thought about how he was prais­ing the Lord with all his might. To me, that sounds like a very beau­ti­ful pic­ture. Although, I’m sure to some of those around him, it prob­a­bly looked more strange than any­thing else.

One of the ques­tions in the study was “When was the last time you saw some­one doing some­thing with all their might?” or some­thing sim­i­lar. I thought about it for a while, and I really didn’t have many exam­ples. The one thing that came to mind was think­ing about how ath­letes cel­e­brate after win­ning a cham­pi­onship game. See­ing them jump­ing and scream­ing and cry­ing and just lay­ing on the ground in awe is what came to my mind. Then, I won­dered when was the last time I did some­thing with all my might. I apol­o­gize in advance to any­one who thinks this is more than they want to know. The last time, I did some­thing with all my might (here’s your last chance to stop read­ing) was child­birth and push­ing. Most of you other moms who have been through labor know what I’m talk­ing about, right? That was great, because it was for my kids. Of course, I would do all that I could for them.

So, again, I was think­ing, think­ing… This month, I com­mit­ted to NaBloPoMo. I missed two days, but I have def­i­nitely blogged on days when I would rather have skipped. I men­tioned at the end of last year that Jason’s sis­ter is doing a pho­tog­ra­phy project that involves tak­ing a pic­ture every day for a year. She’s shar­ing them online at her Flickr account. It’s called Project 365. It got me wish­ing that I had some sort of neat project that I could com­mit to like that. I’m actu­ally still wish­ing that, and since it’s com­ing to the end of the year (can you believe it?!?!?), I’ve started think­ing about it again. Unfor­tu­nately, last year, I didn’t do much about these thoughts. I’m hop­ing and pray­ing that this year, I will make a com­mit­ment to some­thing. I’d like to do some­thing mean­ing­ful and chal­leng­ing. For a year? Maybe not. I’m not com­mit­ted to a year, but I would like to do some­thing that stretches and chal­lenges me. Maybe, I can do some­thing with all my might.