Appreciating The Now

Ellie is clearly from H-town. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Josh and I lived in Houston, his hometown, for a few years after we got married. 15 minutes from the Galleria is where I learned hard lessons in marriage, made adult friends, had my first baby, learned what it takes to run a business, and where I became a real adult living apart from my family for the first time, amongst many other things.

It's funny though because while I was there I couldn't wait to leave! Everything was annoying. The humidity, the traffic...... the humidity. 🙅🏽‍♀️I missed my family, I missed Dallas, I missed what I knew. The quickest route home was all I could think about for years. But now, I miss Houston SO MUCH. 😭Hindsight is often 20/20 and looking back, Houston taught me valuable lessons I will cherish for a lifetime.

In the moment, it's often incredibly difficult to see past our circumstances. But I've lived long enough to know that God will hold us in uncomfortable places to mold us for the next season, like the potter does clay. We as God's people, clay, shouldn't fight this molding but instead bend to his mighty hand.

Comment Amen to pray with me! Lord, help me to be more flexible and easily molded by you. I don't want to resist you. When I don't understand I will choose to trust your hand and be uncomfortable for your ultimate glory.

Romans 9:20 You are only a human being. Who do you think you are to talk back to God? Does the clay say to the potter, "Why did you make me like this?"