My path

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.23Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. 24Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! 

I know its been a while, but life has been busy and my thoughts haven't really made it past my brain...

Yesterday I had the wonderful pleasure of having coffee with a great woman who has, in many ways, become a mentor to me. There were many components of  our conversation that honestly would nott be interesting to anyone who wasn't part of it, but she made a comment that has been on my mind since our coffee date... a comment I think is worth sharing.

So for a little context:

I was freaking out about life and expressing my concerns about my decision making... making the right choices and doing the right thing etc. I told her that I just didn't want to make the wrong decision and end up in the wrong career doing something I'm not meant to do and living a life that wasn't in God's plan for me. I told her that I want to live a life that I'm called to live and she said this (clearly I'm paraphrasing):

" I honestly don't thing you need to worry about whether there is one thing that you're meant to do, one life path that you're meant to take or one ultimate journey you're supposed to make. I think in this life we have a series of decisions to make and a series of options to take. Depending on which decision we make, we are prepared for a certain journey -- in this case, for a certain career. So you can't really make the wrong decision. You might not end up where you thought you would when you started, but you will end up where you are equipped to be, based on your life decisions and your journey." 

Naturally this concept stuck with me...mainly because all I do is worry... but I was also trying to make sense of the bible verse that says that God knows the plans he has for me. My thought was, how do I reconcile this concept with the bible. How do I accept this without undermining the power and the wisdom of God. How do I accept this while also subscribing to Jeremiah 29:11 (may be a tad irrational, I'm running on very little sleep so who knows).

What I came up with was this. Our God does not put us in any situation that we are not prepared for. He does not give us too much to bare. That means that whatever context or situation we find ourselves in, God has, through our life journey, prepared us. Every decision we make in this life, is preparation. So my worrying and frantic decision making, is not necessary. I might not end up where I think my journey should have ended up, but God knows what my journey has prepared me for and will not give me more than I can handle. This is how I made sense of this conversation...I may be completely off, but just spending the past 24 hours thinking about it has in many ways helped me grow. So I felt like sharing (if anyone has a better interpretation or thought, I'd like to hear it. I'm an open book)