Moving On

Sometimes the unexpected happens. As we live our life here on planet earth it seems like the unexpected comes more frequently than we would like. We like to think that we are in control of everything but just when we begin to feel secure in our own abilities and gifts it comes unsuspectingly.

For me the unexpected this month was a job change. I have the privilege of working with a great organization and with great people doing something I enjoy to the max but my job title and my job description have changed. At first I thought that I was in for a demotion. I began to feel I had lost something that I would miss dearly. I also felt some envy for those that would continue on in the same tracts that I had walked before, but would no longer walk. But as I considered the new possibilities of what was being offered to me in the place of what I was leaving, I realized that I now would have the very job that I had wanted all along. In other words, what I thought was a dream job 5 years ago quickly turned into a lot more administration and extra meetings then what I ever dreamed. But now the administration and extra meetings are gone and I have been set free to do what I enjoy doing.

The unexpected for me has become something really good. But what about if the unexpected had become something I really didn’t want? Would I still be writing about it and would I still be happy? Could I have accepted the unexpected as Job had done thousands of years ago with the words, “The Lord gives and the Lord takes away.” Could I have been satisfied to receive the good with the bad and still say, Blessed is the Lord? Receiving what the Lord allows to come our way is not easy. In order to do it we have to believe that The Lord is good and that He only has good intentions for us. We have to believe that even when evil comes against us the Lord has promised never to leave us or forsake us and He will walk though it with us even through the valley of the shadow of death.

This month the unexpected has happened, and I won’t be working as closely with all the people in the picture above as I have the last five years. But we will still be working together in other ways. I have been set free to do what I really want to do.