I am always amazed at how perfectly God's plan unfolds. As recently as two years ago, I proclaimed confidently, "I will never retire!" My work as a music educator was so rewarding that I felt compelled to dedicate an entire life to it. How could I leave something that brought so much satisfaction and joy? If Helen Kemp could work with and for children into her nineties, surely I could, too. After all, I have loved what I have been doing and I have felt that it mattered. I am convinced that my life's work has been a fulfillment of God's purpose for me. But God has had a different plan for my golden years.
I've learned that when a plan is "of God," it begins with a hunger pang . . . call it motivation, if you will. Many years ago God planted a hunger in my heart, a yearning to write. This seed lay dormant while life happened--education, career, marriage, family, etc. I became so busy with living that I didn't acknowledge the growling in my gut as God's urging. Now I recognize that much of what I was doing in my other fulfilling career was also preparing me for this new path of discovery.
You've heard the old cliche, "When God closes a door, He opens a window." I thought I would be sad--despondent, actually--to stop teaching. However, as the door of my forty-five-year career closes, I eagerly anticipate climbing through that open window.
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