Stewardship is a Lifestyle
Nothing has been as I expected it. I don’t know why that continues to surprise me. I told you in my first post that I learned long ago Happily Ever After doesn’t happen on this side of the grass, and yet I continue to be disappointed and disillusioned when it doesn’t happen yet again.
I thought perhaps God was telling me it was about time for things to change. It was a message I DESPERATELY wanted to hear. So desperately that I didn’t trust what I was thinking.
During the summer of 2012, my brother and his family prepared to leave Korea and return home to the States. We talked and prayed about it, and decided it was time for me to return home, too. Once I finished my contract, I’d join him and his family in Texas.
I kept a collection of funny and significant moments that happened while I was in Korea.
I wrote my previous post a short time ago. None of what I’m saying now came anywhere near my mind while I was writing it. When I began to write this post, I thought I’d be writing about the next leg of my journey. Instead, this aspect of Korea pretty much started writing itself. Might be God, and I don’t want to get in His way. Of course, it also might just be me. Whatever. I’ll go with it just in case it’s Him.
When God says, “A new season’s coming,” we tend to put our own spin on what that means. What He meant and what I thought He meant were two COMPLETELY different things!
I think, before I go further in my story, I need to explain what I believe God asked of me when He called me. And yes, it was a call on my life, and not just one task. If you don’t understand this, you likely won’t understand why I’ve made the some of the decisions I’ve made in the ensuing years.
I had just started a new job. The first week I was at the job, everything was … different. The difference was with me, internally. Like He flipped a switch, and suddenly I was aware of a dimension I’d believed in all my life, but never actually experienced.
It was early 2004, and I’d been begging God for some time to set me free from the job I was at. The stress was HIGH. Today, it’s not unusual for me to ask God where He wants me to go. Back then, that was a new thing for me.
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