Change is in the air...

Since it's 12:30am the night before I start a new job, I'm going to attempt to make this brief. (snicker away... ;) ) There's been a lot happening in the past 2 weeks, and I've wanted an opportunity to tell you about it. However, there was another minor change in my life (moving for the 5th time since coming to Richmond 3 years ago) which has consumed most of my past 3 days. Can I just praise God for a second for the absolutely PHENOMENAL people God has placed in my life? I mean, I've known my friends had awesome servant hearts, but seriously... Tommie, Tony, Zach, Sterling, Josh S, Carrie, Jason, Erin Alyse, Mike N, Ryan, Joelle, Kim, Caitlyn, Ric, Keilan, Alana, my mom & dad... Yeah, that's 18 people that have helped me transition quickly into this new place. And that's not even everyone who's been praying or financially supporting it.. Talk about meeting one another's needs!! "Thank you" is so inadequate...


Beyond that, yes, I am starting a new job this morning. God has yet again grabbed my gaze when I wanted to set it on things, on plans, on structure, all while I was trying to remain fixed and unmoving. I'm going to be starting a position as an Executive Assistant with a real estate developing company. It seems like an amazing fit, almost too good to be true. Only God could pull this off a THIRD time in my life. I wasn't looking for this position, but He found it for me and confirmed it beyond all my doubts. I'll be maintaining schedules & emails, managing & tasking projects, meshing the staff together, and pretty much anything else that's needed.


It's a big change in that I'll no longer be on staff with Aletheia, though I will definitely still be a member. Last week, I found out about the job details on Sunday, interviewed on Wednesday, was offered the position and accepted Thursday, and will be beginning a week later --> aka: today. Yeah, fast. But God has been assuring me over and over in that His plans were established before the foundation of the world. There is nothing hidden from Him, no surprise, no sudden change. I know that the Lord is setting Himself to move through all this, that His fame would increase, and His light shine out in darkness.


As I was struggling to know what was right or wrong, the gospel began to overwhelm me. Jesus made Himself a servant to His Father's will. He walked in obedience the steps marked out for Him. Who am I to say to God, "My ways are higher than Yours?" It's pitiful when I'm reminded how much I THINK I know, and then how much I actually don't at all. God called me to the DOD, He called me to Richmond/to Aletheia, and now He's distinctly calling me to this new place. And if I truly seek to lose my life that I might be found in Christ, this is where I will go.


Please be praying with me that the Lord works His mysterious and powerful will in all this. I'm excited, albeit a little anxious, but confident that He is my rock and fortress. In all things I praise Him, and the same passage that brought me here to Richmond 3 years ago is still ever so powerful- "But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,  and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death." Philippians 3- He can take me anywhere, make me do anything. It's His adventure. I'm just excited to be in on it by His grace, because there's nothing else like it... nothing! He who loses His life for the sake of the gospel will surely find something far more precious.