I don’t read for pleasure very often but I have found that from time to time especially during vacation I can get lost in a book and really enjoy reading for fun.  I continue to love anything I read from Lysa Terkeurst so when her new book The Best Yes was shared on the radio, I was drawn to it because it hit on the very thing that I was struggling with, saying “Yes” too often because I dreaded saying “No” and disappointing someone.  Lysa has a way to hit right where I am.  I have been thinking a lot lately how I need to simplify my life so that I do not always answer that I am Busy out of reflex but that I am intentional with my time, saying Yes to the important things and freeing my schedule so that I can seek the Greater Purpose or Best Yes when God presents it to me.   I know that God works in the details of my life and I must be intentional with my next step so that I am ready for the road he is leading me down.

As Lysa says, “Instead of waiting for the time to get started to simply appear one day, we need to be intentional with scheduling it.”  I can’t wait for the right time to get started, I need to be intentional with each step so that my next yes, is not out of obligation and expectation from others but that I a choosing the path I am to be on.

Whether the thing that we feel is our Best Yes is large or small, we have to be intentional today with what we agree to do so that tomorrow we have room if the Best Yes is yet to be added to the schedule.

I have loved this book and would recommend that you also take a look at it too – especially if you are like me and often feel like you have to please those around you.