Where am I going?

Where am I going? It's not at all that I feel at loss with what to do with my life. Well, at least not for lack of options. There are SO many things I would love to do. I would love to teach in the States. I would love to be a missionary to another country. I would love to go to school again and get another degree in counseling. I would love to work with kids in a non-school related program too. I would love to write. I would love to just be a mom and a wife. I would love to work with youth in a church. I would love to do so much.

But where is God going to take me? The honest truth, my friends, is I don't really know. I hoped that maybe this summer He would just put a place on my heart and I would know where I was going. I think we all just like to know what's going to happen next- it's a little bit of responsibility mixed with our sinful desire to play God and control and understand everything.

Today during Convocation (woohoo! 2010-2011 school year!), Dr. Haddad, a professor I highly respect, read from Hebrews 11. Verse eight stuck out to me: "By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going." Even Abraham did not understand what all God was up to. He did not even know where He was going! God does not always give us those hints as to where we are supposed to be. I was just so encouraged to hear that. I've just got to keep putting one foot in front of the other, pursuing a closer relationship with my Lord, desiring His will and His glory. Then, I will end up where I am supposed to be.

I realize that that is not the necessary main interpretation of that verse, but I think that I have every reason to draw huge comfort from it. Life is busy and good. Better yet, God is good.

Loving. Living. Loving living,
April