She’s tall, tan, and brunette.
I’m petite, pale, and blonde.
She’s into sports and band.
I’m into shopping and singing.
She’s makes plans and sticks to them.
I’m free spirited and adventurous without a plan.
Together this girl I’m describing and myself are sisters. Although we have differences we share a lot in common too. People say we’re like night and day but our faith in the Lord and love for each other is a commonality that will never change. It was difficult to say goodbye to her before I left for the race, but thankfully we’ve been able to keep in contact when we can. Recently I asked her if she wanted to co-write with me.
She says she’s not much of a blogger but I beg to differ. Below are words from my very own sister, Tiffany, and the journey the Lord currently has her on.
Her words remind me even though we are miles apart, she’s been at the beginning of my life with me and still continues to be consistently present in my life today.
Be inspired:
“Do you want to co-write a blog with me?”-Nettie
“Sure thing!” I said hestitantly. She answered “so you can either write something about how you’re
seeing God’s working throughout this journey, or your own journey with God, or what you’ve seen God do in your life so far…..”
I almost cried because little did she know that while her journey was across the world, my journey was just beginning thousands of miles away.
It was April 2017 I was job hunting searching for something better, something where I could actually teach instead of get beat up, bruised, and see heartache everyday. I got a call from a school in MD that they wanted me to teach elementary music.
I accepted the job and moved to Maryland thinking this is the journey I had been waiting for. Through much heartache being away from everyone, struggling to find friends, places to go, (and we all know how great I am with directions) and not being as accepted as I thought, I began to doubt my decision. I remember thinking to myself, “Did I make a mistake? Did I choose to do what I wanted instead of what God wanted? What do I do, where do I turn?” I started asking around for advice, thinking what could I do to make this better. Pretty soon friends were lost, family was so far away, so many new policies and stressed of my job I was drownding in pain and sorrow.
The last place I looked was the first place I should have looked all along….I finally called on God for guidence. Afterwards I started feeling peace from all the hurt and heartache, I made friends, I heard from my principle “this is the best sound I’ve heard from this band in 3 years,” things started to work out for me. Althought this is still not where I want to be, it is where I am now in my journey. This is not the end of my journey because I know God is not finished with me yet. I do know that where ever he leads you on your journey you must accept it, turn to him for guidence, don’t rely on friends or yourself to show you the way, and most importantly don’t look back and think “what if?”
2017 was a journey, a rough one to be exact. At the beginning of 2018 I met this guy and he asked me, “are you looking at the one in charge of the storm or are you acting like Peter and looking at the storm?” Yet again another way of God trying to tell me “look at me, seek me, ask me, let me be your guide don’t let the journey guide you.”
What I want to leave you with is this:
Are you on a journey that maybe you don’t understand why, what, or how everything is happening the way it is?
My advice to you would be don’t be like me, look to God for guidence through your journey FIRST before anything else.
Pray fervently for wisdom guidence and peserverence. He will guide you through whatever journey you are on right now.
If you aren’t on HIS journey would you start today?
God is working on my journey and he can work on yours too if you accept his promises, just have faith.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
“Life is a road, now and forever wonderful journey, in the end I wanna be standing at the beginning with you!”
