You know I love talking about the desires I believe God has laid on my heart. The Dreamer within me will have days when I am productive in nothing else except producing up twenty new ideas about how to minister to teenage girls.
It has been a very long year and a half. However, for the first time in a long time, I have begun to feel as though I have some direction again.
Just last month I completed my training to became a Certified Holy Yoga Instructor. This included 225 hours of intense, online training for 9 weeks and a week of hardcore training in the mountains of Arizona.
The gorgeous ladies in my cabin at our Holy Yoga retreat!!
If you would have asked me in high school where I thought I would be at twenty-two years old, a certified yoga instructor would not have even made it in the list of possibilities. God does have a sense of humor.
What to know something even more ridiculous?
I am about to begin six more months of online Holy Yoga training.
Some may not understand why I’m so surprised about where I am in life, but I am. And the only way to explain it, is by giving credit to the Holy Spirit, guiding me on this map-less journey, taking me the road less traveled (Robert Frost).
I am one of those people you could sit down with over coffee and I could clearly describe to you who I am. My interests, passions, quirks, fears, pet peeves, strengths, even list out all of my weaknesses. But, I cannot give you any logical explanation about why I became a Holy Yoga instructor other than the fact that I know this was a step of obedience into God’s grace.
If I had said no, it would have been out of fear. And in Christ’s love, there is no fear (1 John 4).
Henri Nouwen writes, “Over the years we have developed the idea that being present to people in all their needs is our greatest and primary vocation. The Bible does not seem to support this. Jesus’ primary concern was to be obedient to his Father, to live constantly in his presence. Only then did it become clear to him what his task was in his relationship with people.”
For a few years now, I have consistently repeated to my Mom, “I do not care about a college degree. All I want to do is love God and love people.” In the midst of the darkness that filled my life last year, God answered the prayer I did not even know I had been praying.
Please let this be an encouragement to you. I have NO IDEA where I am going to be in years to come. But, I believe in the faithfulness of the Father who created you and me.
We serve a mighty God. He knows us deeply and intimately, and yearns for us to turn to Him with revered obedience.
In what area of your life is God asking for obedience? Where is He pursuing you?
God has created you specifically with purpose and beautiful intention.
What is it? Do you know? Why don’t you ask Him?
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