Trusting God Along The Journey
Life may not go as planned, but there is a purpose and reason for it. [#StyleDiaries]
Howdy, Y'all!👋🏽 You know that if you haven't seen me in a while on here, it can only mean one thing — life happened. Truthfully, life is always happening, but having to make adjustments is the hard part. Anyways, you may have noticed that I added a few things around here, like a community tab, a vlog tab, and a pledge button. I've been running Purposely You for the past six years on various platforms, and I finally feel like Purposely You has a home on this platform. My goal is to pour more time and expand the content here, and I will be able to do that with your help. You can pledge your support monthly or annually or become a founding member. Your support means everything to me, and I am truly grateful to all of you! Let's keep growing together!
What's that saying? If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans. Well, God was laughing at me because I made some concrete plans that I expected to happen. At the top of the year, like everyone else, I set my intentions and wrote down my goals. I decided to create a theme for my year. So, this year's theme is about investing in myself and growing internally to build a stronger relationship with me. I knew I would have to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty to make these changes. However, I wasn't expecting to experience certain external changes that, from my perspective, looked like I was going backward rather than moving forward.
Throughout January, I kept telling God and myself that I wanted to trust Him more. I don't know where the desire came from, but I knew I needed to work on trusting God more. Maybe the desire came about from being tired of going against the flow of my life. I've always believed that God is the director of my life and that every change has a purpose. I've just been stubborn along the way. Now, in order to trust God, we'll be put through situations that require us to trust Him. I understood that to be true, but I didn't know how or what area in my life would bring about a test. The short story is that we (my husband and I) ended our lease. So, we were searching for a new place to live, which was very exciting at the beginning. This was our opportunity to experience a new place and explore a new area. We found a few places we really liked that would be perfect for us and what we needed. Every place that we applied to turned us away. I couldn't believe it. That's when it hit me that this was my opportunity to activate my trust in God. Our move-out date was getting closer and closer, and we still hadn't found a place to call home. Thank God for family! We are able to stay with family for the time being, but it's funny because I'm right back to where I started.
Being back at my parent's house is interesting, but I feel like it's for a reason. I deeply trust that God has a plan. From the outside, someone could easily look at my situation and have a negative view of it and may even say that we failed to plan properly. The beautiful thing about life is that there is no blueprint, and you are allowed to figure things out along the way. And the beautiful thing about God is that He sees things from a wider perspective and has a reason for everything. Even when we (humans) make a mistake, God will turn it into something positive. God will take anything as an opportunity to rebuild us. Thankfully, I've already started working on my mindset around life last year. The renewal of my mindset has been helping me to see my situation differently. I haven't experienced the feeling of trust in this way before in my life. It feels like a warm sunny day, calm and easy, relaxing, and not a worried feeling felt. The feeling will resonate in your gut, and you'll even smile with gratitude because you know God got you.
My way of operating in life has a great deal to do with my belief system and my relationship with my Heavenly Father. However, my way may not be your way, and that's okay. All I'm saying is that you are not alone in life. Everything happens for a reason, and the purpose of situations will be revealed through time and alignment. Don't use society as a measuring tool to see if you are on the "right" track. I guarantee you that it will look like the complete opposite. The purpose of things happening and your life-changing majority of the time is never for that particular moment but for something bigger down the road. If your life so happens to change, things don't go as planned, and you feel like you are moving backward rather than moving forward, think of this, every experience in my life is building and adding to the person I'm becoming, and at this moment I am okay. In the end, it will always work itself out. Trust the process and always remember to be purposely you!
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