The Journey Begins

9/3/18

Sitting at a restaurant recently, my friend and I ordered my favorite Sushi rolls, since it was all new to her. We spent a couple of hours talking about family, children, schooling, cancer, children (she has quite a few), church and ministry… Oh, did I mention cancer and children. She has a little one going through cancer, and quite a few years ago, 28 to be exact, I went through many of the things her little one is currently facing. Kind of ironic that our paths crossed about 15 years ago, and we became fast friends; that after moves to different cities and life changes, we still pick up where we left off? Not irony, but an Almighty God that orchestrates our every step and leads us down smooth, healthy paths most of the time with the occasional rocky, mountain trails mixed in.

I realized when we parted ways, I needed to write down my journey to where I am today. A blog seems more like putting down encouraging words for the day, so telling a story from almost 30 years ago seems a bit abnormal. But it also seems important, because there are many people today going through the exact same things just in a different way.

So this begins a new chapter in a journey that I believe is directed by a loving God that chooses paths for us to take to be an example of that love. People say that if God loves than why does He make bad things happen to good people. If we read in the Bible in the book of Job, God chose a man that went through prosperity and then lost everything, yet he never turned his back on God. Everyone around him told him to curse God, but he refused, and God returned to him the things he had lost. Job is not just an example of if you stay the course, God will bless, but he is an example of stay the course.

God does not always give back to us what we have lost like He did for Job, but He always gives us hope and peace in the journey if we keep our trust in Him. Proverbs 3:5, 6 says “Trust in the LORD with ALL thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In ALL thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

I began my journey in September 2018, so it helps to begin there. A drop down at the very bottom of this page should take you there quickly if you keep scrolling. Thank you for choosing to be a part of this journey.