Current learning points
One of the things I’m learning in recent times is to be much more flexible and allow myself to go through the feeling of not knowing.
As a person who loves direction, clarity, and a somewhat organized life, adulthood is teaching me that it’s okay not to know the next move to make. It’s just okay……
I’m learning that life is in phases and we know in parts. While this isn’t a license to be laid back or complacent, it has been such a great reminder to take one day at a time.
Irrespective of what stage of life you’re in, you can be patient with yourself and simply take life one day at a time while entrusting your entire being to God’s care.
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For me, this whole point means:
- Entrusting the unknown aspects of life into the hands of the One who is all-knowing
- Giving my best to whatever my hands find to do and not limiting fulfillment to doing only the big things
- Being fine with not having that grand idea but making do with the little things here and there
- Opening my mind to new learning opportunities while letting go of what doesn’t work or isn’t serving me
- Embracing the possibility of things not going as planned, to make room for the best of God for me
- Having a better perspective on mistakes, failures, and uncertainties, and seeing them as experiences needed to become a better version of myself.
With this mindset, you can have the strength of heart to go again in spite of setbacks and push through challenges, rather than allowing them to weigh you down.
Like I said earlier, it’s okay not to know. Keep learning, trusting, and never give up. With this mindset and grit, you will eventually move from uncertainty to certainty and from confusion to clear-cut clarity and direction.
Need I mention that God must be at the center of it all because He knows you more than you know yourself.
Proverbs 3:5–6 “Trust in the Lord completely. Do not think that you understand things well enough for yourself. Whatever you are doing, remember that the Lord is with you. Then he will show you the right way to go.”
