Jan
12
One Piece at a Time
Filed Under Life
After being in full time ministry for almost a year now, I have people already asking me how long I see myself doing this.
My answer: I have no idea.
And I’m okay with that.
I’ve never been that person with a 10 year or a 5 year plan. I have a tendency to take it one year at a time. In the past 10 years, I have lived in 13 different places – 8 different cities and 4 different states…and I am planning to move within the next couple weeks (just to another city…still here in Ohio). Does that qualify me as a nomad?
The question I ask myself every so often is, “Will I ever settle down?” Again my reply: I have no idea. Don’t get me wrong, I would love to get married and have kids some day. I just don’t know when. I feel like my life is one big jigsaw puzzle. Every year or every couple years or even every month, God gives me a new puzzle piece for my life. Sometimes they fit with the other pieces He has given me and it makes perfect sense. Other times He gives me a piece that makes me ask, “What in the world am I supposed to do with this???” It’s not until years later that He gives me more pieces to make that one piece make sense and that corner of my puzzle becomes clearer.
Here’s the interesting catch…I don’t know what my completed picture looks like. God is holding onto the box cover, so I have to put the pieces together blind…figure things out as I go. At times it is frustrating when things just don’t make any sense. But then I am in complete awe when I see how two pieces given to me 7 years apart fit perfectly together.
God has a plan. He sees the final picture. He is walking this journey with me. That is why I put my faith in Him and take life one piece at a time.
Jodi, through your observations I can see your faith growing and deepening. Those pieces of your puzzle are truly meant to fit together perfectly, but as you say we don’t know why. The beauty is in the discovery.
God Bless you in your continuing journey!