Beautiful Uncertainty by Mandy Hale

Author:Mandy Hale [Hale, Mandy]
Language: swe
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, Inspirational
ISBN: 9780718076085
Google: 7blFrgEACAAJ
Amazon: 0718076087
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2016-01-15T04:11:17+00:00

Prayer

God, thank You for not calling me to live life to its fullest. Thank You for challenging me to step out on faith and for giving me the courage to do so. Even when courage looks like simply showing up to the challenge with knees knocking. Thank You that “doing it afraid” is often where the best memories are made.

Trust Without Borders

The first leg of the tour had officially ended. We were en route to California, and I couldn’t even wrap my mind around all the places we had been and things we had seen and people we had met in just a short week and a half. It was less than two weeks since we had departed on this adventure, and it felt like a million years ago in some ways. Then again, it also felt like in the blink of an eye it would all be over and the precious moments the five of us, my little road family, had shared would be but a memory. I remember looking out the window and wishing I could hit the pause button and just rest there in that moment, in that RV rocking back and forth on a bumpy road in New Mexico, surrounded by people who had been mostly strangers two weeks ago but who now felt like my band of brothers and sisters.

Somewhere on that road between Washington, DC, New York City, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Virginia Beach, and all the tiny towns connecting all the places we had been, I had found myself . . . or at least a new version of myself. I had set out to push myself outside my comfort zone, and push I did. In big ways and small ways. Night after night—six nights to be exact—I had stood on that big stage and shared my heart and my testimony, and God had gotten me through it. Now as we headed west to our two biggest events, in Los Angeles and Houston, somewhere in the depths of my soul I heard His gentle whisper: “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”

We had taken our journey to hopefully change some lives and inspire a few people along the way, and yet it sometimes felt like I would be the one to walk away from the experience the most changed. I was slowly learning to surrender my control issues (and little did I know then, but God was about to teach me the biggest lesson about control of my life!). I’d had to learn to be more flexible. To have more grace. To get dressed for live events in some of the most random places. (For example, an athletic equipment room at a high school. Not the locker room, mind you, where the athletes prepare for games, but rather the storage space where the various equipment for the athletes is kept. The head football coach was probably even less enthusiastic about it than we were.)

I’d certainly learned to roll with the punches a little more and to trust God to show up when nerves got the best of me and my anxiety threatened to take over.

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