Be everything that you can be!

Wouldn't it be cool to be to do everything that you wanted to do?  As a little kid, I wanted to do so many great and amazing things.  I still do want to do great things, and the things that I have wanted to do have changed a lot, and I bet a lot of you that read this have had yours change as well.  But, we still have some goals that we like to set for ourselves.
I love watching the Big Bang Theory, (no, not the Big Bang theory of astronomy, but the show) and it is really encouraging to me somehow.  I have always admired Sheldon, yes, Sheldon, the most annoying and self oriented person of them all.  But, there is just something about his character that I really like. 
 
To me, Sheldon is the most funny character there is, and he is definitely the smartest (and if you do not know that, I bet he would tell you).  Something about being really smart and funny has been my goal, I am not good at either of them, but they are both a goal I would love to accomplish.  My mom challenged me a number of years ago that I am still trying to keep.  She was in her masters program and said that I could not get a better degree than her.  She now has her Masters degree and I have always wanted a P.h. D.  Just a goal I would like to have (reality has changed a lot to me and debt is something I do not want to get in but it may be still a goal).
The point of all of this, yes, there is a point, I am not just rambling on, is that we all have goals that we need to give God glory for.  How do I do that you may ask, well, there are a few ways.
1) Prayer.  One of the most common elements to have communication with God.  Ever do that with your job or a hobby?  I think prayer for everything that you do can be helpful in blessing the things that you do.  Prayer is not just for ministers, trust me, a lot of pastors do not get everything they pray for as well. 
But, what do you pray for, do you just pray that everything will go well everyday, or that you get a chance to minister to someone?  Ever try not to do either of them?  How about just pray a simple thankfulness to God.  Try going for a week, or if you need two, and just thank God for the gifts He has given you.
2) Look to where you want your goals to go to and what out come do you want.  I know that I have wanted to work for a P.h. D for so long.  I have tried to read so many books, I have tried to memorize every single thing, but for what?  To just show my mom that I could get a better degree than her?  My end result needed to change (college is expensive enough), and I could not keep going through just trying to show myself that I am better than someone else.  A P.h. D. is still in my future horizon, but it has changed a lot to allow myself to wait, see what happens in the future, and then decide.  This is a goal that I still have a while to go to, but with a changed mindset, my goal is still there, but I needed to reformat it.
A lot of us need to do that with our goals, they all may not need reformatting, just the ones that lead to bad endings.  I encourage you to look at your goals and gifts and try and see the end result.  Are they used for the better of yourself and society, or just you.  If they are for you, you may need to simply reformat your goals and your end result to glorify God through them.
Martin Luther was once confronted by a man at his church.  The man asked I want to glorify God, what must I do, must I become a monk?  Martin Luther asked him, "What is it that you do?"  The man said, "I am a shoe maker".  Luther replied, "Then glorify God through making shoes".  We do not need to become a monk, or a minister, or anything "godly" to praise God, just glorify Him through all that you do.