Summarizing excerpts from Jim Denison, PhD, Skeptics can discount evidence for our faith They can dismiss, they can explain, they can reject, they can avoid. However, they cannot reject our changed lives.
Every day I reach for Jesus. Every day I seek His face. Every day my day develops into an excursion far from my own waking plans. Just when I think I will go right, God sends me left. It has been this way for so long, that this is now my normal. I am at one with my path to God.
I teach, I create art on and beyond the canvas, I write, I mentor, I talk, I listen, and all at His beckoned call. I thank Him for these gifted blessings. Everything I do, I do for Him.
And yet... in all of this I get angry, I lose my patience and my temper, I get frustrated, I cry, I feel invisible, I have both physical and heart pain, I get my feelings hurt, I get betrayed, I swear, I overeat, I try, I fail, I fear, and I just want to go home.
And someday, when God decides, I will. But for now... He needs me, and my imperfections, to help those He sends around who do not see or hear Him, which is also not always a pleasant experience. And sometimes it is. I appreciate the smart ones very much.
I acknowledged these others in my second book, Hope Uninterrupted, for causing my path to skyrocket to Gods arms.
Look at me now, still a mess I suppose and still getting side-eyed by skeptics but, God can and does use me. And we both think that makes my footprint here pretty darn worthwhile.
So it's okay God, I trust you. Thank you for trusting me.
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