Isn’t life so CRAZY? You step up to the plate, knowing you’ve studied the pitcher for months. You’ve hit those batting cages, and you are prepared for anything. The pitcher winds up, you’re positive you know what he has in store for you, and then, BAM! A new curveball gets pitched, one you’ve never seen before, and it’s heading directly for your face. This is the story of my life. One tricky curveball after the other… Thank God striking out isn’t an option, or I’d probably move back to my home town, live off my mom and dad for a few years until I found a decent guy to marry me and care for me the rest of my life, and then die and hopefully go to Heaven.
Look, I’m not knocking that kind of lifestyle. It works for some people. But it doesn’t work for me. I choose to get smacked in the face day in and day out for the sake of this overall PURPOSE that I feel I must complete. Sometimes I wish I cared less. Sometimes I wish I could just give it all up and become a bum. But, if I’ve learned anything from my heartaches and struggles, the overall lesson I continue to learn is often times, Life has nothing to do with what we want, and everything to do with what God wants.
Do you ever feel like God is calling you to do too much? What’s that all about? Why are we given gifts and skills and yet no clear cut way to use them? Hey, I’m American, what can I say? I live in the land of RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, so it makes sense that I’m demanding answers! Right?
Maybe this muddy limbo stage for struggling young adults in their 20s is simply the extension of those incredibly awkward puberty years. Both periods make us cry, WHY ME?! But in the end, good is yet to come. We know this through trial and error, but somehow, we have the hardest time allowing ourselves to TRUST.
Trust Part 2 tomorrow.
Peace,
Bryana
