One Day at a Time

I just finished this huge project…well a huge part of a huger project!  One of my goals this year is to get all of my writing (songs, stories, journals, bible study notes)  typed and on my computer.  Step one was all my poems and songs.  That is done.  Step two was my journals.  This was actually a big challenge because there were some very difficult months and years that I had to type.  But, today I finished.  All of my journals are officially typed!!!  It is such a relief.  This is something I’ve been working on for a couple years but I focused on anything but my journals, even though I felt like the journals were of higher importance.

It was a learning experience - there were so many things that I had forgotten until I read them again.  I can see the things God was doing and how He was orchestrating things in my life.  The funny thing is…well, not funny, incredible actually.  Is that there was  a period of time I knew that I was not in God’s perfect will for my life.  He was still showing me stuff and I was still praying and all of that, but I was on my own tangent and during that time the Lord spoke so many things to me, showed me so much and I just wrote it down – I had not known how to respond and the situation I was in made it very difficult.   But then God got me back on course and over the past few weeks I have marveled at how what He was telling me and showing me while I was on the backside of the desert is exactly where I am now.  It is as if I have come full circle and am now exactly where I am supposed to be.

In that time He talked to me about my purpose, the place I belonged, the gifts He had given me and many other things – things that are precisely what I am delving into now in my personal prayer time and in church.  He was talking to me about running the race to win and not going my own way or just sitting on the sidelines – and that is what He has been showing me now.  My prayers back then were “Show me Your ways” and that has been my prayer for this whole year.  I am astounded at how perfectly everything is falling into place.  It’s as if He is showing me that He has made up all the ground that I lost in my wanderings and now I am exactly where I am supposed to be.  His lovingkindness and patience is so overwhelming.  His plan is so perfect.  I am so thankful that even with my self-will and disobedience, He can take the bad and make it work out for the good.

One day at a time as I continue completing the things He has given me to do over the years that I have been His I am finding His presence even nearer to me, and my desire to be fully His growing stronger by the minute – one day at a time.