What if God’s plan for your life was different than yours? What if it were so radically different you had never even conceived of the idea? What if it required for you to lay down everything that you thought would make you happy and content? What if it removed everything familiar and caused you to rely only on Him, not just saying it but really walking it out? Would you be open to this plan?
I’ve worked my entire life, started working as a teenager and have never been unemployed. The job I’m in now I’ve had for 17 years and 10 months. I enjoy my work; I find pleasure in it and am completely fulfilled there. The people I work with are wonderful and seem like family to me. The veterans I serve are a blessing and it feels good to give back to them. So, if you are anything like me, you may wonder how this might not be God’s will for my life. I know I’ve done a lot of questioning and praying and pleading and crying and well, you get the picture.
But in October of 2010 I was hurt on the job, surgery was in November 2010 and the week after the surgery we lost our daycare provider that Monkey has been with since she was 15 months old. She’s the only other person on this earth I trust with her, she was the one who was with us through all the seizures, medicines, surgeries and diets. I love this woman as surely as I love my sister. She feels like my sister. She treats Monkey as her own. I grieved. They moved away, 2 states away. Thankfully, I was still out on Worker Comp, surely I could find someone else.
This proved a bit more difficult than I imagined. I’ve found on occasion God will close doors to keep us in places we would rather not be.
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