Lately I have been in a season that is calm and full of the Lord's good peace. I know he is preparing me for something but isn't showing me what yet. Instead I'm looking at the small blessings and just being in his presence.
As I sat at the beach this weekend just watching the tide roll in and out, the Lord reminded me that yes something big is about to happen and it's just over the next big wave. But it's not here yet.
Instead it's time to sit on the beach listen to waves come and go, look up and get lost in the stars and be blessed with a shooting star. It's the laughter that fills the beach from your small group of friends. It's hearing about what others are doing and knowing that the Lord has called you to listen right now, but something big is coming. But most importantly it's time to be present and confident in that.
Now is not the time to jump in the ocean and try to swim out to the biggest wave and be pulled under trying to get there. No now is the time to sit and wait, to be full of his peace and know that it's coming in like the tide does every day and it's in his timing that what is next will come.
I don't need to go scuba diving looking for a treasure when there are a million seashells waiting for me right on the beach. Now is the time to stop looking to the future and what might be coming in the distance, but instead look right in front of myself and see what is here now.
In doing so I don't miss the blessings the Lord is trying to give me right now, like speaking in front of a group of parents answering all their questions, to make them feel safe with sending their teenager oversea. I don't miss car rides full of laughter and deep conversations about who my father says I am. I don't miss the chance to do one more interview and hear another persons story and what the lord is doing in their life.
While I'm still waiting and counting on the promise that something big is just over that wave, until that wave comes into the shore I will focus on the blessings I already have been given.
