Lean in, I have some stories to tell. I’m sure you do too. While I’ve been recuperating from another MS relapse, I’ve taken the opportunity to read. I have been reading A Lot!!!
Many of my friends and family have recommended books for me to read. Fantasies, true stories, non-fiction adventures. I always choose to read Christian books regarding how our lives are intertwined with God, even when we can’t see it.
I took a leap of faith and moved to Burlington Kansas a couple of months ago to take a job in a Care Center. They offered me 8 hour shifts and I was thrilled. BIG sign on bonus, good pay, great insurance. But God had other plans. He didn’t “cause” my MS attack, rendering me unable to walk very well, but impossible to work in a busy care center.
God has used these events to help me see it’s time to change my path.
I decided to heed His call to me to read. I have been devouring books. Some I have read before and reread them, this time with a different eye and in a place I wasn’t in the first time. I’ve read so many that I’m running out of books to read. There’s a great library in town and I’d love to go, but my legs are not being cooperative and if I go, I have to use a cane. I’ve been putting it off as I come nearer to the finish of the last book I’m rereading.
My insecurity and, to be honest, my vanity is keeping me from going down to the library, cane in my hand to get a great book to read.
I wonder how many times insecurity and vanity has kept me from doing things that I am sure God wants me to do.
I’m still trying to figure that out. I am insecure about writing this.
What are the things that you are insecure about that are making you “hold off” on doing the things that you “might” be good at?
Something to ponder today in midst of all of the busyness. The news, shopping, work projects, children, elderly parents that need care. So many things call to us and possibly call us away from what we want to try and what we might be able to do to bless others. When we listen to the still, small voice whispers to us in our quietness, we will probably have some thoughts of things we think we might be good at and would enjoy.
Lean in, and listen now.
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