Hi friends!

This month, I wanted us to visit the idea of being on a journey. We are all on a journey, because we have not arrived yet. I know that sounds obvious, but hear me out! We may have accomplished a few things. We may have graduated one area of schooling but are still beginning another. We may have ended our season of singleness and are beginning a new season of marriage. We could be new mothers, new grandmothers, newly single after being married, having an empty nest, beginning a new job…you get the picture!

Life keeps moving on; we are still on the journey.

For the past few years, I have chosen a word for the year. At the beginning of this year, as I thought about my new word and began to go through a few ideas, I realized that this was the first year in a long while that I wasn’t having a life altering change to adjust to. In 2014, I became a wife. In 2015, I was pregnant. In 2016, I became a Mom. As 2017 began, God showed me that though there weren’t any ‘big changes’ happening in my life I was still on the same path. It took me a little while to realize what He meant. All I could do was walk, to move forward and stay steady on this path. It’s all the same path-the path He’s put us on and we’re to keep moving forward no matter what’s ending or what’s beginning or if we’re smack in the middle of a season that feels like nothing is happening.

Along that journey, we may not like what we encounter. There may be situations that are out of our control. There may be places we want to stay that God is calling us out of.

This month, we’re going to look at four different people, all a part of the same, yet very different, story. Each of these four people had a very different response to their journey.

Hagar ran. Abraham moved. Lot wanted to stay. Sarah had to wait.

All were met by God. All were given promises. All chose to respond.

I have to admit my word for this year is one that has excited me and challenged me! My word is “Forward.”

It is a constant progression towards a successful conclusion. Isn’t that what we desire? That as we move along life’s path, we progress and that we ultimately come to that successful conclusion? It’s challenged me to cross a few things off my list, to finally begin on things I’ve had in mind for a long while, and it’s made me excited to see those things progress. I’ve been challenged to grow in my walk with the Lord and it’s inspired me to look around and not so much at just me. God opened my eyes and gave me a kick in the pants!

Friends, I’m excited to begin this journey with you and I hope you’ll join me on Monday as we begin our look at Sarah and life “In the Waiting Room.”

 

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