Waiting for Directions

I realized this morning that indeed our family is headed somewhere...I just don't know where yet. We have really been trying to let go of everything and let Him direct our steps. Some days it's very freeing other days it's down right scary.

Carlos sent me a link about a story of a young girl who took what I would consider to be a pretty radical step in her life. She was 18. Her parents dropped her at the airport with a backpack where she then headed for a remote village in Nepal (I can't imagine doing this with Ean!). Along the way, she meet a group of orphans and was so touched by their hardships that she took $5,000 she saved from babysitting to buy a piece of land to help given them a home. You can read her amazing story here: www.sapanasansar.com/2010/03/do-something-award-winner-maggie-doyne.html. The award she won was the "Do Something Award" which I thought was so appropriately titled. Aren't we ALL called to do something? But, what is something?

This week someone also shared with me David Platt's new book called Radical. Just reading the back cover I realized, hmm, God is doing something. It states: "It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, and even family for him."

I'm not sure what the something is in our family, but I do know He's leading us somewhere.