My Journey

I just joined a blogging challenge today and am looking forward to it.  Writing helps me put life into perspective and sort through the daily challenges that just living brings. 

I’m going to stretch a little beyond the prompt question and just say that for the past year and a half, I have been on quite a journey.  Although in a lot of ways this journey was forced upon me and one of the most difficult I have ever made in my life, God has blessed me beyond measure, and He has challenged me to reevaluate my life, my beliefs, and my judgments of other people.  I’m not sure if this makes any sense to those of you reading this, but now that I realize that I don’t have everything figured out, and I’m not always going to make the right decisions, a lot of pressure has been taken off of my shoulders.  If I never messed up and always got it right, I wouldn’t need grace, and Christ’s death wouldn’t be necessary for me. 

For a long time I really wasn’t secure with my salvation.  I always felt like I could never be good enough or do enough to earn it.  I tried so hard to do that, that I almost lost my faith altogether.  I was absolutely miserable.

I now have a new perspective about life, and I’m so grateful for that.  I sometimes have to be reminded of that, and I have people in my life who have to kick me in the backside from time to time just to remind me.  I am grateful for those people who aren’t afraid to talk straight to me, hold up a mirror to my face, and help me discover the truth about myself.

I am a stronger woman because of my trials, and there is nothing I can’t accomplish with God on my side.  In a lot of ways, my journey is just now beginning.  I’m not sure exactly where it’s going to take me, but I can assure you that wherever it takes me, I’m gonna rock it!

Blessing,

Penny