A few days ago, a friend of mine posted on her blog and let's just say it caught my attention. Here's her post: You know how sometimes you read something and you get that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach?? Well that's how I felt when I read it.
I do this all the time, sometimes with the things she talks about but more often than not I do it with life stuff. Such as, how come they know what they're doing with their life, why is she married and I'm not?, and the list goes on and on.
I've been reading a lot again lately and picked up Karen Kingsbury series. The main character in the book was named Bailey and she was asking God all these questions about why this or how come did this happen? All of a sudden she had this revelation about how she'd become so inward focused that she'd turned into a selfish, self-centered individual and had missed the things that were going on in the people's lives around her.
Then I had lunch with a friend last week and she had some really encouraging things to say. The most encouraging thing for me was that I'm not alone, a lot of others are feeling what I'm feeling and while it might feel like we're in the wilderness, God has us there for a reason and when we come out of that place, He's going to do some amazing things.
Wow, I feel as though God has been trying to tell me something, so I think it's time I listened. So I'm resolving to take my eyes off of myself, open my ears and heart to what God says, and take stock of what's going on around me finally. I'm excited to see what I'm going to learn.
