More than just desires

So I've been thinking about what a true desire is. I toss that term around, or the like, so often. I talk about things I want to do, intend to do, want to do, and the list goes on. Then on the other side there are the things that I actually follow through on. I'll call them the actions--I'm so conventional. Things I carry out, the things that play out in my life and transfer from desire to reality. 

Recently I've been swept with this conviction. Is something really a desire in my life if I don't carry it out to completion. I understand that it would be impossible to follow through on every desire (I want to learn to do about a hundred things) but I'm talking about the things that move me closer to Christ. The things that better me as a person, that serve others, that develop me, grow my abilities, etc. Otherwise I'm just all talk. I can sit before you all day and say, "yea I've been wanting to do that" and through you a line that "I've been too busy" but you may be familiar with my feelings on being too busy. We are all busy. Its a lame excuse. Busyness is a lack of prioritizing. To say you are too busy is to say something is not important to you. You would never say you don't have enough time to spend with your husband if that was the most important thing to you, so why we say that when it comes to serving in the church is beyond me. Its just a matter of misaligned priorities. 

So when we 'intend' to do something but never follow through, I'm not sure we ever really have a true desire to do it. Otherwise I believe we would do it. It would take hold of our priorities and be a catalyst for us to move from desire to actions. 

That leaves me at my prayer. The things that are my 'desires' would not stay there. There are so many things that I'm just not satisfied with right now, but I pray that God would not leave me here. I pray that I would keep pressing on and move toward following through with these things and carrying them out to a point where my desires are more than just desires.