Last year, I was doing a Beth Moore Bible study on the life of Paul. I will be honest... I haven't finished it yet. I am currently working through one on Esther that is leaving me so hungry for the Word.
As I was leaving Cornerstone and preparing for what I thought was a move to Nashville, I was so excited to read this, "Don't try to judge your own effectiveness. Another opportunity for ministry awaits you. Shake the dust off those feet and move on. Joy lies ahead." Reading that, I thought FOR SURE that the joy that I was moving on to was Nashville. I was wrong. I could not be more glad that I was wrong.
Don't get me wrong, it was an insanely hard season of doubt and anger and sadness and loneliness, but I learned and grew and changed so much because of that season. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, so it is easy for me to say that now.
I may never know why it is that I felt the deep urge to turn around and head back to San Diego, and I am perfectly at peace with that. All I do know is that it was exactly what I needed to do.
Joy did lie ahead for me. It was in a different way and place than I had planned, and that is ok.
I have great joy.
"Shake the dust off those feet and move on. Joy lies ahead."
Sunday, 19 July 2009
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