Yesterday turned out to be a day of obedience and learning.  I told you yesterday I had an interview with our local TV Channel 2.  That interview went for 1.5 hrs.  I am suppose to hear back from them today or tomorrow regarding the specifics of what they’d like to do for their viewing audience.  I am so grateful God awakened me yesterday to see that this is an assignment rather than an event.  The assignment of yesterday opened my mind to see more clearly the need to get the message out to people but to not make it a one time event.  People need help to know how to move from reacting to abuse to responding to it.  The two reporters I met with saw this clearly.  The other interesting thing about yesterday was that I was contacted by another person in our area who works for St. Al’s Hospital.  She is creating a symposium this fall and wants to talk to me about speaking for it.  We are meeting tomorrow afternoon.  All this happening in one day really helped me understand God’s message yesterday to me that these are assignments for the day, rather than events.  I saw events as something I’d do and never touch again.  However, my lens has changed.  I want to always see these as assignments God has created for me to fulfill His purposes within them.

One other thing happened in my devotions this morning I want to bring out today.  Last night was the step study night for the group of men I co-lead for Celebrate Recovery.  A step study is a weekly meeting where the attendees go through 24 assignments over a period of about a year.  The assignments walk them through a Christ-centered recovery process addressing their hurts, hang-ups and habits.  We are on the lesson of “inventory”.  It is a grueling process as one must face the reality of their past and how it is impacting their present.  All the details are to be addressed in this and each one worked through with a sponsor.  For me, my second step study is what made me know I had to go back to counseling which became the 3 years I talk about in my book.  My hurts were buried deeper within me than my conscious Earnie could grasp.

This morning I was journaling about all of last night’s conversations and what others and I were learning from it.  God reminded me of the Earnie He’d created originally and now is the time to begin fully trusting that he (being me) could be trusted working with The Holy Spirit God has placed within me.  This is the very person He wants on the assignments He is beginning to give me as pointed out in the first paragraph of this blog.  I humbly accepted the assignment and look forward to getting much better acquainted with my new creation.

I hope this personal stuff is helpful to any reader.  I’d love to hear comments of how this might relate to your own personal journey.  Thank you and God’s blessings be upon you.