Missing the Journey

Each week at CCH we have a devotion lead by one of our staff members. This week happened to be Mark Williams's week. He shared a few great thoughts some of his own, some borrowed. But here are a couple I wanted to share.
Joseph tells his brothers and family of his BIG dreams and it doesn't go so well. And although in the end the dreams in fact come true, do you think Joseph would have agreed to those dreams if he had seen the journey he would have to take to get there? Which naturally leads to the question; Would you pass on some big dreams if you knew the road leading to them was marked by danger, accusations, and suffering?

David and I are in the middle of one of those not so fun parts of our journey together. He is currently in Washington, D.C. and I am here in Nashville. Obviously this isn't ideal but we are blessed to both be working and I just couldn't help but think that God was reassuring me that the journey may not always be what we had in mind but he has our destination in mind.

Then randomly a wonderful lady from the town where I grew up sent a text that said nothing but: Jer. 29:11

How perfect!

Comments

Traci said…

That's one that has gotten me through much of we went through in the last two years. Not a fun way to live with the two of you apart. I'm sorry.

March 17, 2011 at 9:24 PM

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