- Oh, the deapth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out!Romans 11:33. I loved my own mother and father. I knew I could call them on the phone to share any burden and they would empathize and pray for me. I also appreciated the support of my husband, children, and friends. My parents and husband are gone now. But there is something about my relationship with God that reaches beyond all these other relationships.God is all-knowing, all-powerful, everywhere present, and compassionate. He sees through me like an X-ray machine. He knows my hurts, my joys, my pain, my insecurities, my unconscious motives, my vacuums and emotional voids, my temptations, and -yes- even every sin and failure. And yet he calls me his daughter, loves me unconditionally, and uses a host of circumstances and people to bring comfort to my soul.How God does this I will never know until I die and enroll in the University of Heaven for my Ph.D. in Advanced Truth! Until then, I will enjoy the riches of knowing God while accepting the fact that his decisions [judgments] and his ways of doing things are beyond my limited human comprehension.Thought: I will thank my awesome God today for who he is and what he means in my life.
Daily Archives: March 23, 2016
Unforseen Paths
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:6
Someone asked, at my twenty-fifth college reunion, how many of us were now doing what we had originally trained to do. In our group, the answer was “No one.”
I started out to be a kindergarten teacher. Then, after teaching awhile, I entered graduate school. That led to teaching education and psychology on the college level, which I enjoyed immensely. Then my husband went back to school for his doctorate, and his studies took us to Southern California, where I resumed my teaching. Enter the United States Immigration Service, which told me I couldn’t teach because I was a Canadian taking a job away from a U.S. citizen.
At that point, I went through a dark period which required me to face the reality that I didn’t feel validated without my career. Then I started teaching women’s Bible studies, leading retreats, and writing. These pursuits made me aware of the need for further education and for counseling skills. That resulted in my entering the fields of counseling.
Never would I have envisioned the interesting path my life would take. If you had told me in college what was to take place, I wouldn’t have believed you. I don’t have any idea what the future will hold, but I do know who holds the future-it is God who directs my path.
Prayer: Lord, thank you that trough the ups and downs of life, you are directing my path. I want to keep my eyes on you.
Jems 