Being a former vocational counsellor, I loved your references to the Devine Career Counsellor. The analogy of the roller coaster is especially fitting. I appreciate your sharing so deeply about your journey with employment opportunities as people often talk about major life changes with out recognizing the diverse ways that spiritual guidance may influence choices. It is so true that major disruptions (like the roller coaster descent) are an integral part of change making.
Thanks Lana! Our mutual friend Susan encouraged me months ago to incorporate a variety of names for God in my writing. I couldn't quite see how to do that. But it came up in an online ministry course I'm taking this summer, so I thought I'd finally give it a more serious try. It was fun, actually. So I'm happy to hear the result was meaningful for you.
Sharon: Thank you for this. Even when we come to understand that God is infinitely patient; He will not push us to do anything. He will speak guidance and conviction and teach us The Way, but we, His extremely proud and obstinate creation are free to do whatever we like. Thus, we often do not see His Grace until we are broken to the point of giving up. How often this has been my path. I churn and turn, trying to make the things happen that I think I need, only to beat myself to senselessness, till I finally give up, then BOOM!! He takes over and multiple miracles happen.
Being a former vocational counsellor, I loved your references to the Devine Career Counsellor. The analogy of the roller coaster is especially fitting. I appreciate your sharing so deeply about your journey with employment opportunities as people often talk about major life changes with out recognizing the diverse ways that spiritual guidance may influence choices. It is so true that major disruptions (like the roller coaster descent) are an integral part of change making.
Thanks Lana! Our mutual friend Susan encouraged me months ago to incorporate a variety of names for God in my writing. I couldn't quite see how to do that. But it came up in an online ministry course I'm taking this summer, so I thought I'd finally give it a more serious try. It was fun, actually. So I'm happy to hear the result was meaningful for you.
I was taught that any reference to God, whatever The Name, should be capitalized in reverence to The One God.
Sharon: Thank you for this. Even when we come to understand that God is infinitely patient; He will not push us to do anything. He will speak guidance and conviction and teach us The Way, but we, His extremely proud and obstinate creation are free to do whatever we like. Thus, we often do not see His Grace until we are broken to the point of giving up. How often this has been my path. I churn and turn, trying to make the things happen that I think I need, only to beat myself to senselessness, till I finally give up, then BOOM!! He takes over and multiple miracles happen.
Yep, we’re all slow learners. Good thing God is patient.