Well, you've almost done it! I am so proud of you. This session is extremely important to your overall success with living out your Chazown, so make sure you complete it!

Check out the final video from Craig as you follow along on page 25 of your participant guide.

Don't let the devil stop you from completing your 100 day plan! I know you can do this, and I am so very proud of you. Keep up the great work!

Session 5 of the Chazown Experience: Living Your Chazown

You're almost there! I am so proud of you for working through this experience as you've searched for God's purpose for your life.

Check out the video from Craig and then come back here for a short video message from me. Enjoy!

Your Homework this week is to read all of Part 5 of Chazown (aka chapters 65-76 or pages 195-219).
Next week, we'll start setting goals and creating a 100 day plan. See you then.

Session 4 of the Chazown Experience: Naming Your Chazown

Well, it's time for session 4 of the Chazown experience! I hope you're ready. Since I'm currently at Disney World! and I don't have my notes, I am not positive of your reading homework pages. Be sure to watch the video to get the page numbers for this week's homework. Check out Craig's video first and then come back here to watch our video. Enjoy!

Session 3 of the Chazown Experience: Clarifying Your Core Values and Spiritual Gifts

Welcome back! This is session 3 of our online Chazown experience. You have 3 short videos to watch today. Watch them in order and make sure to come back to this page for the next videos you need to watch. Enjoy!

In case you have not yet completed your Spiritual Gifts Assessment, click here to complete it now.

Session 3 Video Part 1:

Check out this session's video message from Craig. Follow along in your participant guide beginning on page 8. You'll need to skip to page 11 about halfway through.

Session 3 Video Part 2:

Homework: Read all of Part 3: Chapters 18-30 (pages 62-93)

Session 2 of the Chazown Experience: Learning from Past Experiences

For our activities this week, you will need numerous small sticky notes in 4 different colors (preferably yellow, pink, blue, and purple). Even if you don't have sticky notes yet, begin by watching the videos below.

Get out your Chazown Participant Guide (http://chazown.com/resources) and follow along as you watch the video below.

After checking out Pastor Craig's video, check out this video for a little encouragement.

Homework to do before session 3 next week:
1. Complete your personal timeline
2. Share your timeline with someone.
3. Read pages 26-51 (aka chapters 6-14) in your Chazown book. Need a copy? Click here
4. Complete your Spiritual Gifts test @ http://chazown.com/spiritual-gifts/test

Session 1 of The Chazown Experience: Finding Your Chazown

So it's finally here! Week 1 of our Chazown experience! Just a quick note from the book,

"He (Jesus) did not die for us so that we could stumble around ignorant of our reason for existence."
~ Craig Groeschel

 Check out the video below to get started.

To download The Chazown Experience Participant Guide, go to http://chazown.com/resources. You'll want to download the participant guide and print it off to use over the next 6 weeks. (Do this before you watch the video below from Craig.)

To buy Chazown online from amazon, click here.

Once you have your Participant Guide ready to go, check out the video below from Lifehruch.tv's senior pastor, Craig Groeschel as he gets us started on our Chazown journey.

Homework: Read pages 3-24 and 52-59 before session 2 next week when we'll look at our Past Experiences.

Reply below: What do you expect or hope to gain from the Chazown experience?

An Introduction to the Chazown Experience

I'm so excited that I can hardly stop thinking about this! As announced last night, I am starting an online women's group! (Men, you can join us too!) Chazown is awesome! It is going to be so much fun.

Check out the video below to hear all about it. This video is kind of an experiment. We'll see how it goes. When I watched it, there was a weird moment when my mouth moved really fast, but you could still hear me.

Thanks for following this blog. I hope you decide to join us next week as we begin Session 1 of Chazown.

An Announcement!

I'm am really excited about the next big thing God has called me to do. Well, I hope it turns out to be big, that would be cool.

If you've been following for a while, you may know that I recently participated in a Chazown experience. Chazown is the Hebrew word for vision. Through my Chazown experience, God challenged me to look at my life and create a purpose statement. My purpose statement is the reason I started this blog and what challenged me to write daily.

My purpose statement is: To continuously seek knowledge and understanding to help other women find intentional peace and balance in day to day life while giving generously and  living with authenticity and humility. 


My purpose continues to grow and become clearer, and I'm excited about the next step! While prayerfully seeking what I was supposed to do with my purpose statement, I knew that I was supposed to start a women's bible study (even though I was personally doing very little studying of the Bible myself). Of course, I gave Him every reason why I could not and should not lead a Bible study/small group, and He continued to show me every reason why I should I could.  


It's been a little over 4 months since our first group met, and we have an amazing group of women who meet every Monday night to learn, grow, and share. It's been one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. It's drawn me so much closer to God, and it's provided an outlet for me to share with other women who are experiencing many of the same things I am.

That's great isn't it? Are you wondering where the announcement is?.....It's coming....

Since our group has grown, we've noticed that there are lots of women who desire a small group setting. Some people don't know where to go or how to get started. Many women simply don't have one more night to commit to anything. I totally understand.

So I am starting an online women's group. There is no specific time you have to show up. You can join us weekly when it's convenient for you. We are going to start by working through a Chazown experience to help you find the vision for your life.

Many people end up somewhere, but few people end up somewhere on purpose. The purpose of working through a Chazown experience is to find the true vision and purpose for your life.

More info to come soon! If you want to join us, all you have to do is continue to follow this blog. Tell your friends and have them join you. If you want to start early, you can start by getting the book Chazown. You can find it here for a little more than $10.

Look for the first video message to start our online group sometime next week. I hope you'll join me!

Being the Author

So if you've been following my daily posts lately, you know that I'm working through the Chazown experience for a 2nd time with my bible study group. I've been reading through the book Chazown, and I love the end of part 1.

At the end of part 1, Craig challenges us to write our own epitaph. To fill in the following sentences:

The thing that was most important to me was...
People sy I stood for...
I made a difference in my world by...
God was glorified because I...
People knew I loved them because...
The reason I expect God to say "well done" is...

Here were my answers:
The most important thing to me was my family.
People say I stood for intentional peace (sound familiar?)
I made a difference in my world by helping other women.
God was glorified because I learned to listen to and follow Him.
People knew I loved them from the time I spent with them (and because I told them).
The reason I expect God to say "well done" is because I was not afraid to follow Him.

So what are your answers? I challenge you to fill in the blanks for your epitaph too.

For more information on the Chazown experience, go to www.Chazown.com.

Disturb us, Lord

About 6 months ago, I was definitely searching for something more. I was happy and things were great, but when I look back at my day to day life, it was not exactly healthy. There were days I felt overwhelmed. There were days I felt like I could never catch up.

I still have days like that, but they are few and far between. And I have to credit a lot of it to my growing relationship with Christ and my experience with Chazown. Chazown is the Hebrew word for dream, revelation, or vision and the title of Craig Groeschel's book based on seeking God's vision for your life.

I had the opportunity to go through a 3 session workshop based around the book that helped me find a greater purpose for my life. It was honestly one of the hardest and most rewarding things I have ever done. And I know for a fact that the devil did not want me there, and now I can see why. Keep on reading....

Chazown is the reason I started a bible study, the reason I made a point to get the "little" day to day things in my life in order, and the reason I started this blog. At the end of the session I had a purpose statement that still remains the same:

"To continuously seek knowledge and understanding so that I can lead other women to find intentional balance and peace in day to day life while giving generously and living with authenticity and humility."

Maybe you can see where the title of my blog came from. Now, it took a long time to get that out on paper, and it has begun to mean so many more things in my life than just a bible study and a blog. The night I wrote that I had no idea a bible study or a blog would be involved in living out my Chazown, but they've become huge parts of it.

Speaking of bible study, we are now working through the Chazown experience with 18 other women who are all seeking the vision God has for their lives.

Today while Addy was playing outside and Luke was napping, I picked up my Chazown book and started to re-read it from the beginning. Here are just a few of the things that I thought some of you would like to hear from the book:

Everyone ends up somewhere, but few people end up somewhere on purpose. 

When you start to be really honest with yourself, many of us would say that we maybe had some sort of plan for our lives, but the reality is that most of us are just trying to survive the day to day. We're not heading any place in particular on purpose. We're just trying to make it by. 

But so many of us never seek God's will for our lives. We're perfectly happy coming up with our own plan and attempting to follow it, never acknowledging that God had a purpose in mind for us from the beginning. Craig points out that "the Bible makes it clear that we were designed from the start to live for a unique reason....In Psalm 139:13-16, David wrote,

You created my inmost beings; 

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me 

were written in your book 

before one of them came to be. 

He knew what He wanted your life to be like...and He invites us to seek Him in order to learn what His perfect plan is for our lives." 

I don't believe that God sent His son to die on a cross for us so that we could "just make it by." So many of us are burdened by our everyday lives, by our jobs, by the tasks at hand that need to be done. He didn't wonderfully make us so that we could just survive. He wanted us to thrive. 

Craig points out that if you are burdened by any part of your life, then you're not living in the vision God created for your life. We should all live excited about what the day holds, and ready to step out in faith towards the next thing He has planned for us. We were all created for more than the anticipation of 5 o'clock.

Chazown has helped me to fully understand that I was uniquely created to do something here on this Earth that only I can do. You were uniquely designed for something only you can do....only you.

So the question becomes, are you doing it? Or are you just wandering through life, taking one step after the other, but having no clue whether you're going in the right direction or not? Even if you're content and happy, I would bet that you're not exactly sure what your purpose is; what the big dream for your life looks like. 

I love this...straight from page 15 of Chazown:

"Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves. When our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we have sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord."  Sir Francis Drake

"Are you willing to let God disturb you with dreams so big that you don't know how they'll be accomplished? A vision that can only come true if He pulls it off?

That's what you'll get if you come on this journey. If you seek God's unique life purpose for you. 

I won't promise the road will be smooth. But I do promise you can start today living with a vision for fulfillment. You will wake up every day with purpose and passion, motivated anew to fulfill your destiny. 

No more wandering. No more emptiness. No more searching. 

You will day, "This is why I was created. This is the meaning for my existence."

And God will smile." 

Just wanted you to know what I was thinking about tonight. Just wanted you to know that there is a way to be so much more than you ever planned to be. Just wanted you to have a place to search for the truth. 

Know that with God, there is always more for you than you ever imagined, but you have to seek Him. 

May God disturb you.

Find free resources online at http://chazown.com/ or Buy your copy of the book on Amazon