It Is What It Is

I know this is usually used in a negative context: a phrase of resignation, surrender, or disappointment. I am not using this phrase in that context.

It is what it is...only I don't know what it is. God knows what it is. What do I mean? I can't keep track of my own life. I certainly can't plan it.

Right now I feel like I am just along for the ride. I never expected this job, or this life. And yet this is where God brought me. He has a plan for it. I am trying to understand it. Until then I just say humbly: it is what it is.

The speed of my life has increased threefold. I think it is good for me. I find myself always on the go, working and investing in relationships, and taking time for personal interests. But I wonder how I got here overnight. It will take some time to adjust to the new schedule, to distribute the new burdens in a healthy manner.

Somehow whenever I'm busy I feel like I can never catch up. I think my soul is a quiet pond in the mountains. When I'm forced down stream, it gets uncomfortable until I reach the next large body of water.

But it's good for me. I just need to find the balance of prayer, and rational detachment with my new job, and still having hopes and dreams on the side.

I feel a little guilty that this blog is so vague...but I think I'll need some more time to adjust to my new schedule and see my new life from a different perspective. There is a lot to process. Right now I am just getting up every morning (with hope and joy) and tackling whatever comes that day.

And God continues to give me promises:

Isaiah

60 Arise, shine;
For your light has come!
And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the Lord will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.
3 The Gentiles shall come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.

What a beautiful promise.