Thursday, October 18, 2012

Moving Forward

I thank God for his patience and leading in my life.

Sometime you have to take a step out and trust the Lord to lead you and redirect you if need be.

I have been going back and forth between wanting to keep pursuing/starting YL here in Jessamine County or do something else. As of late that something else has been going back to school part-time and getting a Masters Degree while Brian finishes school since the first 2/3rd if the degree that I could finish would be free while I work at ATS.

Wednesday in the 3min drive home I decided I didn't want to take classes. I wanted to do YL.

I have always know that this is what I really wanted to do. There a few things that are not from God that were keeping me from really moving forward with YL.

-Societal Views: If you can further your education for free you would be crazy to pass it up.
-It is going to be hard

Reasons that kept me wanting to do YL even though it would be a start up and it would be hard and long process:
-I love and miss Young Life
-I want to do ministry now.
-I want to build relationships.
-I want to tell the good news of Jesus to High School Students.
-I want to be a part of a community that serves and gives sacrificially of their time, talents and lives.
-I want more than the 8-5 job and church on Sundays.

 I think most people who hear will  think I am crazy for not going back to school while the very few who know my heart and where I have come from will understand. These are the same rational smart woman in my life that when I decided to go back to class and just give up on YL because it would be hard/ no one was really in support of it at this time, spoke truth into me that made me second guess myself. Truth that reminded me of the tears that fell two and a half months ago when I wept because I didn't want to not do YL for another 4 years.

 I believe God has called me to ministry and he has blessed me with the experience and training (and some amazing people who I can ask for wisdom from).

So succeed or fail. I choose to seek God in what he is doing right now.  Who knows how God wants to use my willing heart or the people that I will encounter during this time.  I am excited about the conversations that I will be able to have and the relationships that will come from them.

Do what makes you feel alive! That is how you know your doing what God would have for you.

1 comment:

  1. Yay, Megan! Go and be His light. If God is asking you to join him in His work and His timing is now, then walking away from that would be foolish. You know your shepherd's voice. Wahoo!

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