Journeys

Well, I finally finished "Wild Goose Chase." It took me forever, but that's mostly because I kept forgetting to read it. But it was kind of a good thing that it took me so long. I started it back in May. I started reading it at the house I stayed in this summer with my friend Garrett. I opened it again at other times during the summer... in a car on the way back from a mission trip in Florida, on an airplane, on a train, and now in my room here in Wake Forest, NC. Finishing this book the other night brought back a flood of memories from the past four and a half months. God has brought many different places. It's been an interesting journey!

The journeys we go on are always interesting. That's the best way I have to describe them. At the time, we experience all kinds of emotions. Some of them we don't understand. Alright, I don't really understand any of them. But that's besides the point. We may feel sadness, confusion, pain. We may feel joy and comfort. Sometimes we feel them all at the same time. A lot of the time, we can't decide what we feel. Or what we think. It's times like this that remind me to stop trusting in myself.

"I have not been abandoned, no I have not been deserted and I have not been forgotten.

I need You.
I need You here, I need You now.
I need security somehow.
I need You.
Like you would not believe.
You're the only thing I want, cause You're everything I need."

Sometimes we just need to cry out these words. Sometimes we just need to remind ourselves that we need Him. When I say these words, I'm definitely not telling God anything He doesn't already know. When God takes us on difficult and interesting journeys, He does it for His glory. He does it to help us become who we were meant to be. And I believe that starts when we admit that we can't do it without Him.