I’ve always admired people who were able to work in one job until they were ready to retire. I can’t say that I’ve been able to do that, though! When I was younger, I used to wonder why I never could seem to stay in one place for long periods of time. I used to think that there was something wrong with the fact that I had had many, many jobs over the course of my life up to this point. (Related post: Traversing the hills and valleys of life with grace). Maybe it’s with getting older that you become wiser, but I now know that I shouldn’t regret the twist and turns that my life has taken. I can fully say now that I’ve led a very interesting life, to say the least. The so many twists and turns that my life has taken have given me more than I might have had if I had stayed in one job.
Why is that, you may ask?
I found that I grew and blossomed. I learned and became more than who I was before. I thrived and prospered.
How did that happen? I had a family who supported me as I struggled to understand the path that God wanted me to take. I had friends who prayed for me as I grew to know that God’s purpose in my life was so much more than I had thought that it could be or even should be. God knew that I had needed all of those interesting twists and turns in order to grow and blossom, in order to learn and become more, and in order to thrive and prosper. This was God’s plan all along. I just had to trust Him and go along for the ride! (Related post: Finding the Strength Within Our Struggles).
My advice, try not to regret how you got to this point. If you learned from all those twists and turns, then you now possess the power to help others. That’s an awesome power to have!
So what did I learn from this? I like to be in control of where I’m going, but I had to learn to let go and let God so that He could guide me where He wanted me to go and so that I could learn what He needed me to learn. It’s all part of His grand scheme when we are open to Him!
Realize that God gives us free will but one of the best gifts that we can give back to God is that free will. When I gave it back to Him, He lead me in so many different directions! Even though I didn’t understand at first, when I opened myself up to God, then the things that happened in my life have become much clearer. I see things with so much more clarity that I couldn’t see before!
What can you gain from this? The thought that I want to leave you with is this, try not to be overly concerned about the many twists and turns that your own life has taken. Understand that God has a plan for you and these twists and turns might have always been a part of you discovering the person that you were meant to be. You now know that you are much wiser than you were before and can put everything into a better perspective. Then you too can also say that you’ve led an interesting life as well!
A Joyful Mission 