So, How Would You Rate Your Life? A 10? Or a Zero?

If you had to stop right now and rate your life -- choosing a number 1 through 10 -- what number would you choose? Are you living life to the fullest -- a 10? Have you hit bottom and have nowhere to go but up -- zero?

Most of us aspire to greater and bigger. We're naturally ambitious. We want to make a difference in the world. We want to be able to retire in comfort, even luxury. So, we look at our lives and probably give ourselves a 6 or even an 8. We know there's better out there!

Does this describe you?

"Most of us have some awareness of the future that is in us," writes author Terry Smith -- who challenges us all to achieve a 10. "We have moments when we catch our breath in wonder as we briefly glimpse possibilities vastly preferred over our past and present. We intuit something great and grand and from God percolating just beneath the surface of our lives."

So, what will it take to achieve a 10?

"We can become fully awake to this future," writes Smith. "We can bring this future from the nebulous realm of the subconscious into the world of the conscious. We can move the mystery toward the intentional. Once we do, we can partner with God to create the tomorrow He has dreamed for us—the future we were made for. We can create our God-inspired futures.

"Many of us dream of living a richer and more significant life — the kind of fulfilling life that, when rated on the scale of one to ten, would score a definitive ten.

“We can only know life in all its fullness if we live the life God dreams

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