Have you ever been on an airplane and had to store a piece of luggage in the overhead compartment?
If you have then you would know that there is always the possibility that your luggage can shift due to turbulence during your flight. You will sometimes arrive at your destination and open up the door to find that your personal belongings were not in the exact place that you left them.
I must admit that recently I have had a lot of “shift” going on in my life. Things aren’t quite in the same place I left them. I have packed up my bag and filled it with my ideas of home, family, life, work/job, gifts/talents, the Kingdom of God, who God is, who His people are, the role of the Holy Spirit, who I am, my limitations, my entitlement, my privileges, my rights, etc. all into a nice, neat, organized piece of luggage that I have stored in my mind and in my heart. Just today I have placed my baggage in this vehicle called the “World Race”.
Over these next 11 months as I hop on planes, trains, and automobiles, I’ll get to serve people in some of the poorest nations on earth. I’ll get to experience a bit of life the way that the rest of the world knows it. I get to live in raw community with a team of 6 different people on a squad of 55 people. With all of those variables I know that there’s definitely going to be some turbulence along the way. But you know what, I say bring it on!
At the end of this journey I want to open up my heart and look inside to see where I stored the things that I valued most before I began. I want to see how they’ve moved. I want to make time to grieve the seasons of my life. I want take time to marvel at our great God and how He saw me through with His amazing GRACE. Then with a goofy smile on my face I’ll take a big deep breath in, and breath out and say “Shift Happens”.
