Maybe you are a high school graduate, young adult girl or a girl at any age who knows life can be more. Enthusiasm, joy and excitement easily pours from you. Your life appears to be a happy one in every social situation until alone with your thoughts. You may think, “I’m not quite there. Something is missing. There’s more for me to do.”

If you’re this girl, your brain can scan more negative moments than positive ones landing on earlier hours of the day or travel to a troubled spot in the distant past. You reflect on not fully knowing who you are and where you are going. Only you know about these unsettled feelings that somehow appeared, hold you back and are uninterested in leaving.

I still remember the first time I heard the phrase, “Blissfully Discontent” from a colleague. I was stunned and shocked to hear how well these two words summed up my life. I was the description above: happy yet dissatisfied. I longed to fully know who I was and only knew I was far from who I was created to be. Rehearsing my flaws and dwelling on obstacles became a regular occurrence. A better way existed, if only the unwanted bundle of thoughts would no longer hide, block and prevent the way ahead.

We are much more capable than any negativity we can imagine in our mind. I found my first step to meaningful change spending time with God everyday no matter how short or long. The length of The Lord’s Prayer in the KJV of the Bible is seven sentences counting the word Amen. Seven is also a symbolic number in the Bible, seven colors in the rainbow and seven days in a week. If you’ve never talked to God before and even if you have, seven sentences is a great place to start. Everyday.

Exhausted from being blissfully discontent, I committed to a daily prayer time and received more than I could have imagined. I had wrong thoughts about a lot of things including Him. God melted away all of my incorrect and unproductive thinking while reminding me He is worthy of our trust. God is in the business of rescue, liberation, and setting free. Sound familiar? Jesus saves us. Jesus saves us from all the heaviness and gives us eternal life with Him.

This is not a step by step formula, it’s the truth. Spending time with God everyday is a gift. The more you learn about God, the more you learn about yourself. God loved me all along even during the times I wasn’t sure how much He cared. I only hurt myself when I threw this opportunity away.

“The length of The Lord’s Prayer in the KJV of the Bible is seven sentences counting the word Amen. Seven is also a symbolic number in the Bible, seven colors in the rainbow and seven days in a week. If you’ve never talked to God before and even if you have, seven sentences is a great place to start. Every day.”