Expanding horizons...

I had the opportunity this weekend to be a spiritual advisor for an activity I have never been to before. Preparing for something you have never done can be thrilling as well as nerve racking. As the time was drawing near I felt a growing burden to cover this in prayer, not even know what would happen. I did spend a few mornings in prayer asking God to provide me with wisdom and discernment and the others involved with what He knew that they needed. God was good (as usual) and we met with him at the event. I believe that a young man began his crisis of faith, but knowing that he is not alone and that there are those who would push him to own his own faith; not ours, not his parents, not his friends, but his. At the end of the night, after feeling a bit defeated through the process, he emerged with a new sense of life and a few questions to answer. As he and God walk this journey, it will be fun to be a resource to be used.

For me, this was a great time. Preparing for something we know nothing about requires a reliance upon God, we miss that in our society too much. Maybe we are too well informed and because of that we "figure it out" instead of "praying it out". May I pray it out more often than I figure it out!! May God continue to strip away the wrong thinking and mis-thoughts that I have. May I become a prepared ad sturdy tool in His hands!!

Amen