God's Plans

I just had coffee with a beautiful friend of mine, Lindsey Sorenson. Lindsey is an inspiration. She is incredibly smart and an amazing woman of God as well. She is a Registered Dietitian with a Bachelors in Nutrition. She worked very hard to have those credentials, and yet she has been humbled by God and discovered working as a dietitian wasn’t what God had in mind for her, at least not for the current time being. Instead of using her degree at the expense of not fulfilling God’s calling, she has decided to sacrifice her four years of schooling to fulfill what God was calling her to do for this season of her life. She is currently working in missions. The job is not glamorous and she has had to sacrifice much of what the world would say is the “good life”, but her life with God is much better than anything the world could ever offer. Lindsey never saw herself as a pioneer of a mission’s school, but God had other plans for her.



Similarly, my ten year plan included being a high paid Psychotherapist, but currently God is speaking to me to enjoy my current lot in life of being a mom. I’m not saying I won’t one day be a Psychotherapist and I am still pursuing my Masters in Psychotherapy. What I am saying is that I’ve chosen to block out the social pressure that screams “hurry up and finish your degree so you can make more money.”

My current priority and God’s calling for my life is to be the best mom I can be. I don’t know what tomorrow will hold, but I have to enjoy what I’ve been given right here and now and stop living for the future. It is difficult trying to explain to the world that I have a view that is counter cultural- indeed our culture is constantly pushing us to work, work, work so we can have more money, bigger houses, and nicer cars, but at what expense? We sacrifice time with our family and even our health to have all these THINGS that we cannot take with us. The more money we make, the more we spend. So why not just step back and ask ourselves who we are doing it for?

God is speaking to me and He says “Slow down. Enjoy what I’ve given you in this moment. Quit trying to plan out your entire life. Just live one day at a time and leave the planning to me.” For me that is more difficult than I ever would have known. I am such a planner! But trusting God to plan my future instead of planning it myself is oh so worth it. That’s why I don’t understand how anyone could say life with God is boring, because it’s anything but. You never know where he will take you from one day to the next. You just have to hold on and enjoy the ride.