This Way or That...That is the Question!

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” 
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!


Really thinking about this excerpt from the Dr. Seuss book..."Oh the Place You'll Go!"..gets me wondering if we really do decide where we go? We can choose the path, but the Lord tells us in Jeremiah that He knows our future. 


My family and I are definitely at some crossroads as of lately. We are going to Haiti in November, my husband and I, are. My daughter will join us down in Haiti the second week we will be there. We are excited and it felt more real to me when we finally went and began the passport processing yesterday. My daughter just got back only but a couple of weeks ago and she blessed our hearts with the stories and pictures from there. It was as if a fire that long ago went out was rekindled and lit. 


When I was but fifteen years old, I felt the leading that I was to be a missionary. I even looked into some Bible colleges and sent off for some literature. That year of my sophomore year of high school was a tough year for me. I felt so distant from everything and was really beginning to ask God what He wanted to do with me...what direction was I suppose to be going. But as teenagers are, that was fleeting and then came marriage at the age of eighteen. I had all four of my beautiful children by the ripe age of twenty nine. 


Here I am now thirty nine years old and am finally going to see the need for the Lord in other countries! I am excited and scared all in one, but as I sat tonight in the choir, I thought of that fifteen year old girl that had wondered if missions was the calling from God...and it is quite overwhelming to hear my Father say to me in that small still voice tonight.."Haiti is your mission." I am actually trembling typing this only because it feels unsure and unsafe to type that, but I know that I will come back to the USA a different person..I have seen my daughters metamorphosis and it is so beautiful!

I know the safest thing to type here tonight is that I am sure of one thing, and that is my salvation and assurance through my Jesus...and He promises to never leave nor forsake me, so that is comforting. In which direction He points, will be the door I walk through, knowing that He came and calls  the weak to be strong, the lame to walk again, the blind to see, the weary to unload all their burdens, the sick to trust, the tired to not be weary in well doing, the bitter to let go, the angry to release, the hungry to be filled, the thirsty to never thirst again, the hopeless to find hope in His promises, the sinner to come to repentance and the directionless to seek and He will show you the path.