Paths

How fast time flies by! It seems like only a month ago that I was walking down the aisle, my eyes fixed on my soon-to-be-husband. We have now been married for one year and almost a day...and time keeps right on ticking. At this rate, what may feel like a week to us, will have been four years. Kent and I may or may not be in the same town, I'll be working as a nurse, he'll be teaching and working on his masters. And who know? Maybe there will be a little one or two running around.

The funny thing is, if you would have asked me five years ago where I would be today, my story would have been very different, but God's story as we are often reminded, is always the better one. My best guess five years ago would have had me running my own interior design business, with probably one or two kids already, and living in in Colorado somewhere. Now I laugh at the very idea! God sees far beyond our own limited sight. Where he sees a clear path for me, I so often see trails branching to the left and right, many of which look just as good as the other. And yet, as I learned in Bible study this past week, he's not content to always have it this way. Though there's not always a distinct "wrong" path, there's always a better one. He desires for us to actively seek his will, so that he can share his many blessing with us. We can experience the blessing of the Promised Land now as Beth Moore said in the Bible study video, or we can choose to do things our way and wander around in the wilderness for 40 years. I don't know about you, but want to experience the Promised Land now. It's often hard for me to fathom though, that God can have more blessings for me, when I feel that I am so blessed already. How can God want to give me more? Why? Because I am his own. As it says in James 4:5 "He jealously desires the Spirit that he made to dwell in us". He wants to have the relationship with me that a father has with his child.

In another five years I am sure I will once again be surprised by how differently life has taken Kent and I from what we imagined, but it's my desire that I will be able to look back and know with certainty that we both sought God's will while trying to choose what paths to go on. I'm looking forward to many more years to experience God's goodness with my wonderful husband!