the beauty of waiting.

       Lately, I've felt like all I've been doing is waiting. The Lord has been setting up opportunities and putting things on my heart every time I turn around in these last few weeks-maybe even months. And while I am so excited to see how it all will play out, it's also pretty unnerving. 


       I'm at a point in my walk with God where I feel restless. I want to go. I want to do. I am beyond blessed to have friends who radically love the Lord and have given their lives up to proclaiming His love to the nations. Whether they are going through seminary, serving on or running summer camp staffs, in India working with the women in the sex trafficking industry, giving up their comfortable lives to start churches all over the world, starting local and foreign ministries..they all have inspired me so much.


       Being only a junior in high school, feeling this restlessness can be very confusing. It's not like I can jump on a plane right now and move somewhere to be a missionary. I have school. I have no money. I have responsibilities here. Granted, I love my life and I love what God is doing in me and in the lives of those around me. But wanting to do something else, somewhere else all the time is dangerous. If I'm always in a state of yearning for something else, no matter how "good" or "ministry-oriented" it may be, I will begin to stop living in the present. I won't take advantage of who God has put in my life right now, in THIS moment. 


       Which brings on a whole new thought the Lord has made quite clear to me: Maybe God isn't putting me in a season of waiting, but of preparation. Guiding, loving, protecting, and humbling me for whatever life of ministry He has called me for. Now, I see clearly. I feel His presence in my every endeavor and in my every moment. Ever since my Father has made this new truth so real to me, I'm starting to see how many opportunities I've already been given in a radically different way; opportunities I was taking for granted. He has blessed me in the acts of ministry in so many ways...I just have been too blinded by comparing myself to others to take what He's given me and do something amazing with it. Currently, that is going to be my prayer. To take advantage of the beautiful and exciting life I've been given RIGHT NOW. 

"Don't ask yourself just what the world needs; ask yourselves what makes you come alive and then go and do it with passion & purpose. Because what the world really needs....people that have come alive."

In His Love,
Wesleigh