Today’s journey takes me back to the consulting work I did for 15 years after retiring from public education. I’m meeting with a lady who was a first year principal 17 years ago and has grown into a leader who has done so much good for our local educational world. She is the only person of all the many I worked with that stays in touch. The reason–she reaches out. I’ve never known anyone quite like her. In fact, she is the one who steered me to the publishing company I used to publish my book which came out almost exactly 9 years ago now. We have met once a year for the past few years and I will enjoy this meeting again this morning.

God is working to help me see just how much He wants to take every area of confusion and anxiety I have and turn it into a learning lesson as I give it to Him. The lesson always has the first learning which is growing my TRUST. Scripture asks us to ponder why we’d ever worry when God takes such good care of the sparrow. Won’t He also do the same for me? (this is an Earnie translation). The roots of anxiety go deeply into my system so uprooting them is taking time. A good thing is that I am able to surrender them and see them as they are–worry. I don’t bury them, but now confess them much sooner than I have ever before.

God is such a kind and faithful teacher. No wonder He never stops working to mold us into His Son’s likeness.