Unexpected Turns

 I considered what to write about here, Abba Father, and I leaned toward taking an idea from my YouVersion devotional Bold and Brave: Women of Welcome.  This was the first sentence:

"Trusting God can be difficult, expecially when life has taken an unexpected turn."

Oh, yes.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.  Proverbs 13:12 is one of the verses accompanying today's reading.  Truthfully (always!), I am not sure anymore that I "hope" to return to work.  I have enjoyed many parts of this time off.  I probably needed it.  The uncertainty of the resolution does wear on me, and I think it wears on DH as well.  

One of the next challenges I will face will be the explanation of this leave.  I hesitate to tell the story partly

because I am aware of every storyteller's bias--to make him or herself blameless.  It would help if I, like Jesus, could unequivocally claim to be blameless!  

Unexpected turns.  I would not have expected this one.  But You are faithful, You are good, You hold and know the future.  I will put my little hand in Your big one and trust You.  And I will move forward.

In Jesus's name and with love~~Amen.