A call into ministry can be a lonely path to walk: it is one filled with side journeys of doubt and insecurity as well as the most incredible blessings.

Most people don’t understand why I would choose this road and wonder what am “I” planning on doing with it….And, I must say, it’s pretty hard to explain it when I don’t have all the answers myself.

I often wonder: why me, Lord? what now? which way? how come? how long? are You sure?

I often feel ill-equipped, uncertain, unqualified, unappreciated, insecure, misunderstood… I struggle with being too busy and not busy enough….

I feel like this lighthouse- seated on a cliff where hardly anyone can see it unless you know it’s there and want to find it.

It’s rough some days..as rough as the waters that surround the cliff- beating a well worn pattern into the rocks…it feels as lonely and isolating as this lighthouse looks.

But, like a lighthouse, I am called to let my own light shine regardless of where I am placed and who is looking…I am to tell the wonders of He who saved me…I am to “proclaim the excellence of Him who called you out of the darkness and into His glorious Light” ( Sarah Young Jesus Always).

1 Peter 2:9

But you are chosen to proclaim the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections of Him who has called you out of darkness and into His glorious Light.

And so I press on…for the One who has called me onto this lonely path is faithful to finish what He started in me.

Matthew 5:16

Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good deeds and moral excellence and glorify your Father who is in Heaven.

I lean in…I question…I seek…I listen…I wait…

“I have called you to follow Me on a solitary path, making time alone with Me your highest priority… as you walk close to Me, I can bless others through you” (Sarah Young Jesus Calling).

John 1:5

The Light shines on in the darkness…

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