Spent the weekend in Columbus with Lisa. Nice weekend even if it was with three dogs that don't get along. The Irish Festival in Dublin Ohio was awesome as usual and enjoyed the wonderful food there. This morning we went to church with Lisa and wouldn't you know it? God followed me to Reynoldsburg? The church there is studying a book in the Bible each week and today was the book of Esther. A short time ago my small group was studying women of the Bible and we had a good study of Queen Esther. Only two weeks ago I got some movies from the library and one was about the life of Esther. Well Dion spoke this morning about how Mordecai told Esther, to paraphrase, how do you know that you are not queen just for this purpose, saving your people. Dion made it personal and questioned each of us "How do you know that you were created just for this moment in time, exactly where you are" He spoke of dead end jobs, Godless jobs, etc. Maybe each of us was created to bring God into those dead end jobs or to touch the lives of those we work with. Anyways, this message smacked me big time. I will work in a ministry the beginning of September to hopefully bring healing to the hurt. Maybe I was created for such a time as that. And work, while I love the work, I get aggitated at the process sometimes, maybe I was created for such a time as this.......
Mordecai told Esther, if you don't save your people, someone else will. Do I want God to have to use someone else to do what I am in place to do? I pray that I will take the risk that Dion challenged us to and be that person of God, following in Esther's footsteps. Not easy footsteps, not sure that there won't be punishment footsteps but footsteps that lead me to where I am supposed to be.
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