Each and Every Day

Almost 10pm on a Thursday night and I should so be asleep right now, alas, that is not the course this night would be taking. My story tonight begins a little over a week ago when I was hanging out at Amy’s helping her pack for school and a backpacking trip she is currently on right now, it was a Monday night and I had to be at work the next morning, I had really been struggling with work for a few weeks at that point; I didn’t want to go anymore, I didn’t have any desire to talk to the people I worked with all day, and I couldn’t see the point, I was just getting through my days. But that night Amy said the words I needed to hear; something like, pray that God will give you a reason to want to go to work, and that He will give you something new. Over the past week I saw something new; and I’ve come to appreciate the beauty of my world; this somewhat ordinary existence which I walk through each and every day. I still struggle going to work everyday when my alarm is going off at 5 in the morning, but I’m taking it one day at a time, holding on to the word that God has placed on my heart to live and do everything like it’s for Him; to be faithful in what He has given me and wait.

The second event of tonight’s story happened a few hours ago when Jason called; he is raising money to go to this program in Dallas Texas called Masters Commission, it’s some sort of school slash ministry training program, he recently found out that if he refers someone who signs up he will get money for his tuition, they told him to ask friends who he thought might be interested, he thought of me. To him this was simply a question that needed to be asked, because it might pay off for the both of us if I wanted to go. As he described the program and all the benefits that go along with this path he is soon to be walking down I already knew what my answer would be, simply no.

I have peace in my heart in this moment, on this day that my path for this season remains in Michigan with my family, at my job, going to my church. As much as Masters Commission would most definitely put me closer to my desired career path, as much as it would satisfy my college dreams, I know that’s not the next step on my path. God told me to be faithful and to me it’s very clear what that means, to do everything unto God is to cherish every moment, to work with excellence, to find opportunity to grow each and every day, and to be thankful for the path He is leading me on. Today I stand on the edge of a new season, not because I am running away to a new and unfamiliar world, simply because my eyes are opened to the change in the one I currently live in, for today is a new day and this is my season to see the new and beautiful in an all too familiar land.