Okay so... two weeks short of a year since my last post... here we go again... and now I actually have my own computer so this might work out!!!
ha!
Over the past year, God has done so very much in my life, and in this time of reflection, I am absolutely overwhelmed with gratitude!
The vacation that I had talked about in my last post absolutely changed the course of my life. You see, that vacation brought me to my hometown of Lafayette, La, and in my time there God spoke and confirmed SEVEN times within a two hour period that I was to move back. I had no idea where I was going to live, a vague idea of where I COULD work.. possibly, and no idea of how it was all going to happen.
Not out of character for what God calls us to do 99% of the time though, right?
I mean, if it makes sense, it may not be God!!!
So within a month, I transferred from the Sears call center in Mobile to the retail store in Lafayette, a door opened for a place to live, and I came home.
From the outside, it may have looked like I wanted to come home and get involved in ministry here, but both God and even I knew better. This was a season for me to step back and let some healing happen from things that had hurt me while in Mobile. I had lost a family member while living there and faced some disappointment.. as King Solomon put it in the book of Proverbs, I was suffering from hope deferred.
Over the next few months, healing took place and quite often it took my breath away!!
and over this journey of what has been the last eleven months, I have learned as never before how to trust God and just go to Him.
I've gone from living in a room where the ceiling literally caved in and the house was falling apart to living in a beautiful house, renting a room for which the cost is very affordable.
I've gone from working a job where I was miserable and literally making little to no money, to now doing what I love, and had gone to school for and had nearly given up on; massage therapy in a great workplace where God is providing so far above what I ever thought possible when I moved back to Lafayette!
You see, I went from making very decent money for a single person, living nearly rent free with no bills to coming to Lafayette, with no skills to find a good job and having no idea how i was going to make it!!
But I trusted God
I counted Him faithful who had called me!
Looking back, I don't regret any of it! Now, I'm not saying that I don't wish that I would have been wiser financially when I had so much wiggle room in my budget... that's another story and another lesson learned. But I am so grateful that I came when He called!
I have been so blessed by my church family and God has opened some amazing doors here.
so, this is just a bit of the adventure that has been the last eleven months!
God is Faithful!
Be encouraged: He meets us where we are and He provides for us!
But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you.
Matthew 6:33
ha!
Over the past year, God has done so very much in my life, and in this time of reflection, I am absolutely overwhelmed with gratitude!
The vacation that I had talked about in my last post absolutely changed the course of my life. You see, that vacation brought me to my hometown of Lafayette, La, and in my time there God spoke and confirmed SEVEN times within a two hour period that I was to move back. I had no idea where I was going to live, a vague idea of where I COULD work.. possibly, and no idea of how it was all going to happen.
Not out of character for what God calls us to do 99% of the time though, right?
I mean, if it makes sense, it may not be God!!!
So within a month, I transferred from the Sears call center in Mobile to the retail store in Lafayette, a door opened for a place to live, and I came home.
From the outside, it may have looked like I wanted to come home and get involved in ministry here, but both God and even I knew better. This was a season for me to step back and let some healing happen from things that had hurt me while in Mobile. I had lost a family member while living there and faced some disappointment.. as King Solomon put it in the book of Proverbs, I was suffering from hope deferred.
Over the next few months, healing took place and quite often it took my breath away!!
and over this journey of what has been the last eleven months, I have learned as never before how to trust God and just go to Him.
I've gone from living in a room where the ceiling literally caved in and the house was falling apart to living in a beautiful house, renting a room for which the cost is very affordable.
I've gone from working a job where I was miserable and literally making little to no money, to now doing what I love, and had gone to school for and had nearly given up on; massage therapy in a great workplace where God is providing so far above what I ever thought possible when I moved back to Lafayette!
You see, I went from making very decent money for a single person, living nearly rent free with no bills to coming to Lafayette, with no skills to find a good job and having no idea how i was going to make it!!
But I trusted God
I counted Him faithful who had called me!
Looking back, I don't regret any of it! Now, I'm not saying that I don't wish that I would have been wiser financially when I had so much wiggle room in my budget... that's another story and another lesson learned. But I am so grateful that I came when He called!
I have been so blessed by my church family and God has opened some amazing doors here.
so, this is just a bit of the adventure that has been the last eleven months!
God is Faithful!
Be encouraged: He meets us where we are and He provides for us!
But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you.
Matthew 6:33
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