Growing Pains

It is funny how I thought that once I was all grown up that I wouldn't have growing pains any more - you know the kind, your legs would ache or you were constantly hungry because your body was changing from one state to the next. Well, I am now in my thirties and I am still experiencing growing pains. Just of a different kind. The grown up kind.

Because I am not the kind of person to just sit around and take the easy road (well, sometimes), I periodically feel the need to shake it up a little. On this go around, I decided that it was time to further my career and thus further what I could provide for my family. In doing so, I knew that I would have to leave what I already knew and was comfortable with on to something that would challenge me and help to grow as a person. Thus enters the growing pains. I am really excited to be doing what I am and I am looking forward to new things I will and am learning, but it is hard to switch gears. It is hard to become accustomed to not knowing everything about what you are doing and not know what lies ahead, but then again, I am learning that there is fun in that too.

I have to remember (and should do so more frequently) that I am the clay in my Potter's hand and He is going to mold me into the person He wants me to be. Trusting in that, that is where I am.

I guess it is time to change the verse above my desk from Jeremiah 29:11 to Jeremiah 18:6:

         For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future           ~ Jeremiah 29:11

        He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. ~ Jeremiah 18:6