I’ve learned this: In the face of uncertainty, most people will stand there and wait for someone else to go first. They want to see if it’s safe and if the other person makes it across. Leaders are the ones who go first.
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This territory was past the point of faith I actually have. I think this is the precipice of something “other”.
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Acknowledging that God is leading you is the best way to stay out of your own way. It’s also the best way to get over feeling disappointed with the confusing road blocks and closed doors in your path.
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Because I’ve messed up so severely in my life, I don’t claim a right to much of anything. Nobody owes me. However, I do know that God has given me the gift of grace. I know it so deeply that I can move about freely, without the shame of remembering what I did and without the fear that God is going to punish me. It’s only recently that I’ve started entertaining the idea that God may want to build something cool in my life and have me be the caretaker of it.
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The thought of years of working really hard, investing a huge chunk, and then hoping I was doing it right and not wasting my time while someone was adding their percentage of my hard-earned money to their own income made me feel frustrated.
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I’m writing this for both of us. I’m writing it for me because if it works, I want to remember every part of the story. I’m writing it for you because, A) it’s the only way I can talk about it, and B) it might inspire you to do something crazy, too. Read more…
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Why is it that when you decide to make a huge life change, something immediately comes trying to knock you over? Once I decided to change the way I handle my responsibilities and be more like Matthew 25, things started to break.
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I think that opportunities come along all the time, but you have to be ready for them. You have to prepare before you know what you’re preparing for.
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God has given me a certain measure of responsibility: my children, my finances, my gifts. Matthew 25 makes clear the call to take risks and multiply what is entrusted to me. It takes huge faith and huge risks to grow into the life that God has for me. This blog series is that story. I’m a year into it now, so I have a lot to catch you up on.
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