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Transitions - Part 2

For the sake of an update, I have given my thirty day notice on my apartment - I will be out by the end of December. During this season in which people are generally getting into the "Holiday Cheer", I find myself kind of pulled away from the throng of noise and hustle and bustle. I am being forced to delve into a deep place in my spirit to find peace and genuine security and identity in the Lord. That is a good place to be. I am going through all my "stuff" - hehe, I just moved here 2 years ago but I seem to be quite a pack rat. I am getting rid of a lot of stuff - both physically and emotionally. I am laying down dreams, expectations, desires, even promises I believe the Lord has spoken to me. I hold it all with open hands. I am not shutting down my heart, I am simply allowing the Lord to sort through what I have. I am not trying to be content with less, I am believing for more - more of what He wants for me - something bigger than me, something with more purpose than I could come up with on my own. I don't feel very brave or very confident in the decisions I am making, but I am making them in obedience and in faith that He is leading me in the way I should go.

Psalms 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.

I am taking one step at a time, one day at time. Sitting at Jesus's feet in the early morning hours, not to receive direction necessarily, but to simply draw on His presence and fellowship. I am lost without Him.

Transitions...Part 1

A dear friend of mine brought a blog post to my attention today. The author of the post was commenting on a quote from a book she had just finished, entitled "Don't Waste Your Life" by John Piper. Although I have not read the book, I identified deeply with the quote.

"But if the discontent with your present situation is deep, recurrent, and lasting, and if that discontent grows in Bible-saturated soil, God may be calling you to a new work. If, in your discontent, you long to be holy, to walk pleasing to the Lord, and to magnify Christ with your one, brief life, then God may indeed be loosening your roots in order to transplant you to a place and a ministry where the deep spiritual ambitions of your soul can be satisfied. It is true that God can be known and enjoyed in every vocation; but when he deploys you from one place to the next, he offers fresh and deeper drinking at the fountain of his fellowship. God seldom calls us to an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of his sustaining grace. "

I have hesitated to write much lately due to the transition I am currently in. I know the Lord is leading me out of my comfort zone and into a what feels like a "do you have the courage to take a risk even if you fail?" zone. Sure, I would move to Uganda tomorrow without a hesitation. A three month trip to Indonesia in a few weeks? I'm there, just put me on the plane! But to do what I feel the Lord is leading me to do right now, what I can't write about yet, do I have the courage to trust Him with that? What if the idea of it really puts knots in my stomach? I am following Him down a road I have never been on before. And that quote helped me understand that it is ok for me to be searching deeply...