It’s taken me a long time to climb out from under the need to please people. Why it was embedded so deeply in my heart early in life I’m unsure.

However, not until the last 7 years have I realized how unhealthy it can become.

When God begins to call you to your place, you will have opposition. Some will think you’re crazy if you are asked to leave a plush lifestyle, secured salaries, and old ways.

Some secretly hope you will snap out of it🤣 and “return to your senses.”

What they don’t yet understand is you have finally come home…

Home to arms that open wide and hug tight. A heart that willingly listens day and night and helps you walk.

I found all I had ever lacked in this pondering heart of mine in one place with One person. The One. The Christ.

His heart beats in me now. They can call me crazy. Overboard. Extreme.

It really is true. I can’t blame them.

But I wish deep in my heart they might know what I’ve come to know. That Christ Jesus lives. I mean….He really lives.

That the smallest of pain causes Him to run to me. I can barely type this without sobbing.

Only He knows the extent of the damage the world does to a little girl with dreams.

So He sits and listens to every story and heart cry till I am fully satisfied in His presence.

Everyone needs to be heard.

I have found the greatest of all listeners.

Some years ago it knocked me on my heels in utter delight to hear Him speak back. This big, powerful, and holy God. The Creator of the universe….wanted to speak to me💌

So I was smitten from the start.

It had to be that way you know.

So that when the day came to do the hard things He had in mind….I’d know I could trust Him.

So here I stand.

Sometimes, just me and Jesus…

But we are together and where He leads, I will still follow.