“It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence liberates others.”

I Always Wonder

What do you do when you feel like a step-child of God’s? Walking in some type of bubble wondering what you did to piss God off and why there always seems to be another challenge awaiting you. I feel like that sometimes. Yesterday I did. I went to bed crying. I really want to trust HIM more especially since I am feeling this incredible pull to help “other” people out in “their” journey with God. I feel alone, thinking thoughts to myself, wondering when and if, visions will materialize. I for one have seem so many just die. I remember reading a book by Andy Stanley where he said something like any visions that die where not from God [don’t quote me but something like that]. So then I start to think…is it me God or is it really you? I go through daily life waking up thankful for the air I breathe, my children are not in the hospital, my husband loves me, I have good friends but yet with this feeling of incompleteness that I have not finished what I am to do. I wonder if it is this church plant thing…I wonder if its to do something for multi-handicapped children like my younger son…I wonder if it is to build the Center for Emerging Female Leadership…I always wonder. I hardly ever get an answer…just other questions. Perhaps that is the problem. Perhaps I should just let the writer of this great story [God] lead me to my next chapter without me trying to read the end of the book. I do scan books alot you know. Too impatient and busy to read it cover to cover. Perhaps that is exactly what God wants me to do. Take it one page at a time because the great story of Liz Rios is yet to be finished and it will be a great one as all HIS stories are. It may not be a best-seller ala MY LIFE by Bill Clinton but ‘my life’ will attract someone one day. I wonder what the story will say. You see…I always wonder.

One Response to “I Always Wonder”

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    hang in there, liz.
    maybe our projects aren’t the thing at all.
    i wonder, too.
    maybe it’s all the becoming we do along the way as we stretch ourselves and others beside us that’s the point.
    i feel this ache, too, and have no answers.
    we just have to hang in.

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