When I was a kid and first heard that ‘God had a plan for my life,’ I thought that I was going to get the nondenominational version of a Hogwarts letter – a physical book on my doorstep that laid out THE PLAN. I left the physical idea behind, but started living with the emotional weight that God had a single great purpose for me and it was my job to discover it. There was a career soulmate, a location soulmate, a human soulmate, all just waiting for me to find them.
I let the Enemy twist my innate potential and hard-wired desire for an expansive, purposeful life into a narrow standard of joy that I could never quite reach.
I’d have to hang up my ambition. Dial down my vivid emotional life. Settle for wedging my high-capacity, go-getter, wild-dreaming self into a life of quiet mundanity.
Thank you Jesus that literally none of that is true. A life with Jesus has been the most courageous, adventurous, strategic, creative, anti-boring thing I’ve ever done.
And – I get to work hard. Crank the dial up on everything – mission, sabbath, love, joy, purpose.
I want to wring out the most vibrant and abundant life in Christ, I want my life to be wrung out for the glory of God – and I want to help other Kingdom women do it, too.
my story
To be honest? I was scared that if I accepted there was no single, special life I was supposed to have, then real life with Jesus would be, well…boring.
