The Beauty of a Blank Page

This is a shorter post, but I wanted to throw this out there. A life lesson I've learned through writing.

You always start with a blank page...

And some are definitely easier to fill than others. Some you struggle over as you want to tell a certain kind of story but it's not coming to you quite like you thought it would. The words you want to pen down are not there, you can't feel them...yet.

Words that are felt, meant, and destined to be written at the moment you sit down to write are those that will most aptly and thoroughly tell the story of you. Words are sacred and a precious commodity; don't force them and don't waste them.

I've always been of the mindset that everyone has a story to tell. They re always writing history; and that is even if their name is not mentioned anywhere in a history book. There are plans, important ones, that turn us into the people we will one day become and give us those stories we can write or tell. These plans are born of a great Designer and a Holy Redeemer that destined the course of our lives before the foundations of the world were laid.

So what a thrill, pure joy is it to hold in your hands and lives a story being played out before your eyes; so intricately woven thousands of years before our existence. This was done by an all-powerful Creator that loves us in more than we can ever comprehend or ever will on this side of Heaven or the other. We do not hold the capability within our beings to understand that kind of love.

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

Jeremiah 29:11

Anyone who looks at this post and thinks..." she must really embrace God's plan for her life"... I haven't always and still feel the pull of my own will often. I've pushed and shoved against God so many times, and so many times He saw fit to humble me, bring me low, and show me what He had planned for me at any point in my life. Having humility is a step, I have learned, that is a key part of accepting God's plan for me as a woman and is one of the hardest lessons in life to learn.

Biblical womanhood, manhood... and simply growing in Christ is a beautiful story. Wonderful as it is, it is unpredictable, scary, wonderous, and confusing at times. I've been told though that every single one of these things is part of what makes it beautiful. 

When you start writing a story, or when you catch a vision, you want to sit down and be able to jot down all of it and come up with your conclusion right there at the moment. Learning to embrace each step of the story as it comes is the process we have to go through in order to reach the best ending we could ever hope for. We have to be patient. 

"The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD."

-Lamentations 3:25-26-

Essentially, it is not our job to write the end of the story. We can make the choices of different twists and turns, but God has our ending already written but carefully tucked away until we are ready and have fulfilled the vocation and have journeyed on the path He laid for us at the beginning of our lives. We have to be faithful and good stewards of the life He has given us. 

"Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful."

-1 Corinthians 4:2-