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You never know what the day will hold!! I dropped my daughter off at a club meeting about 11 miles from our house. On the way home, I decided to avoid the terribly congested freeway and take the windy road through Lake Matthews.

As my car approached the section of road that goes up and over the lake, I noticed the car in front of me getting impatient.  She made the mistake of moving a little too far to the right. Suddenly, the dust and gravel on the side of the road got under her tires… and she lost control. Swerving one way, and then the other, her car was facing me in a matter of seconds and I looked her right in the eyes. It was unbelievable! A moment later, she smashed into the half-wall that kept her from plummeting to the bottom of the lake.

I was so shaken! Half thrilled that my car did not get sucked into that destructive vortex… and half panicked about the condition this woman would be in when I approached her car. Thankfully, several people stopped and someone helped the injured driver step out of her car.

So thankful. So grateful to have averted disaster.

Now that I am home… this crash has me thinking and praying. And a little ticked.

I am so tired of watching people in my life spin out. Swerve across the lanes of their lives. Crash into the wall and hurt other people. I am stinking mad at the enemy who lives to destroy families, isolate people, and break hearts.

I’m seeing marriage after marriage end. I’m watching good people try to do what’s right and hurt others in the process. I’m witnessing relationship after relationship implode as miscommunication and hurt feelings run rampant.

Meanwhile, I’m just trying to keep my own life on track. Trying to avoid crashing into the wall that I see others smashing into. Life is not easy! Relationships take more work than anything else in life.

I am far from perfect. My marriage is miles from where I’d like it to be. I yell at my kids. Mess up the finances from time to time. Look my failures in the face daily. But one thing I can say….

I AM NOT GIVING UP.

After today’s experience, I am even more convinced that I have everything to lose if I do not let Jesus take the wheel and lead me on this road of life. I’m letting go so He can have control.

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Must be a “bloggy” kind of week. This is my third post in five days!

All day yesterday, a book sat on my fireplace and called my name. I finally got to it this morning. A few thoughts from Oswald Chambers just hit me. Reading the passage brought some major clarity to my life today.

Mr. Chambers was talking about Moses. Remember in Exodus 2, when he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave? He killed the Egyptian. I had always thought of that as such an impulsive thing to do. Never understood where that came from… Moses was not a violent man.

After my reading this morning, I think that in his soul, Moses already felt the calling to lead God’s people when he was a young adult in Egypt. Seeing one of his fellow Hebrews being abused, the passion for leadership that God was developing in him came to the surface. Granted, his actions were wrong, but I think that he was responding to God’s call in his flesh (in his own power and timing).

How often are we guilty of that? We sense God’s call on our lives, and we begin to act on it before He can lay out each step before us.

So, Moses spent the next 40 years in the desert with sheep. God needed time to work some things out in Moses. The calling wasn’t canceled, just on hold until God’s perfect timing came to pass.

Feeling like you’re in the desert? I sure am. Sometimes I wonder if God is going to lead me back into the kind of service that I know falls in line with the calling of my life.

God showed me that I need this time in the desert to further prepare me for future ministry. The calling is not cancelled… just postponed for now.

I must trust that His timing is perfect!

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We’re all going places.  We all have a destination in mind.  Me?  I dream about Hawaii or visiting the Holy Land or taking my kids to the Grand Canyon.

Today,  I’m thinking about life destinations.  Where am I going in my life?  I think it changes over time.  Right now, these are some of the destinations I’m looking ahead to:

  • The delivery of my son before June 1, 2009.
  • Financial freedom
  • Celebrating my 14th wedding anniversary on March 11th with joy and passion.
  • The day that my younger daughter finally gets a B (or better) on her applied spelling test.
  • The future (unknown) ministry that God is preparing me for.

How am I going to get there?  I know that I won’t arrive without God’s help.  I do have choices when it comes to life destination transportation, and I choose to be led by my Father God. Listen to what He told the Israelites after he had led them out of their slavery in Egypt:

“You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings…”   Exodus 19:4

God wants to carry me to my next destination.  He wants to carry me on eagles’ wings. How effortlessly I will arrive if I choose to let Him swoop me up and bear my burdens.  The catch is, He has His own destination in mind. Read the rest of the verse:

“…how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.”

He wants to bring me closer to Him.  We are always focused on getting to the other side of our trial.  Making it through the current test.  Arriving in the land of plenty.  Being released from slavery to something. We have our eye on a destination that is probably directly linked to our personal comfort.  He has His eye on a destination directly linked to our transformation and more intimacy with Him.

I ought to let Him choose my destination. Not just ask Him to get me where I want to go.  How often does my destination of choice take me farther from Him rather than to Him?