The Journey Begins
- Josie Bartosz
- Feb 20, 2016
- 2 min read
Life is a journey, no one will argue with you on that. However, most people see it as a journey to a destination, they see life as something that they have to travel through in order to get to where they want to go. I disagree, life is a journey yes, but there is no set destination, unless you count death, or in my case eternal life through my savior Jesus Christ.
On this journey we call life we can find another thing that no one will argue about; that life is a constant learning experience. We are always growing and changing, we are not who we were yesterday and today we are not the person we will become tomorrow.
I have this theory though, that God sends us seasons of even greater learning. We have moments in our life that try to beat us down, that try to knock the wind out of us and leave us lying on the ground with no way to stand back up. While we may not appreciate these seasons of life because of their difficulty... these are the moments that help define who we are, that determine if we are going to lean on God and pull ourselves back up to become stronger than we were before; or if we are just going to lie there defeated and without hope.
I am in one of the difficult seasons of my life, I am at a point where I have more questions than answers about many personal things and I don't know if I will ever get the answers I am looking for. And at the beginning of this period of hardship, I will not lie, I was lying on the ground and planning on staying there. I had decided I was beaten and I was ready to give up, what was the point of any of these hardships?I was asking the age old question: Why Me?
Then I turned to the only one left who could do anything, and that is God. I began to meditate on Him and read His word daily, and while I am still struggling to stand. I am leaning on Him as I dust myself off. I am at a crossroads in my life, a crucial point where the direction I turn now will define me for the rest of my life. I have decided that I am going to let God guide me down the path that holds His will, and relinquish my need to control everything in my life.
I don't know what is best for me right now, or what the future holds, but I know God does. So I am giving Him the map that is my life, and I am stepping back and letting Him take me on a journey that I know will be better than anything I could have planned for myself. And this blog is just a place for me to put down my thoughts on this journey of great change, and is free to anyone who wants to follow along with me.
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
-Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"
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