Thursday, February 26, 2009

I dream of being a wedding coordinator in Las Vegas.

Okay, so maybe that's not what I DREAM of becoming. Maybe I just want to live the life of a wedding coordinator in Las Vegas. OR maybe I want to be free to move through all 50 states in a given year, working an odd job representative of the culture while there. Ha, and no, I am not near adventurous enough to come up with this idea on my own.

Give credit where credit is due. In this case all the glory, or disapproving glances, can be directed to Daniel Seddiqui. At a time when some people are having trouble finding one job, Daniel Seddiqui is lining up 50 — one in every state (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29391533/).

I just read about Daniel for the first time today. What an awesome and crazy existence. Granted this experience will only last a year but it will impact who he is for the rest of his life. I'm not creative, flexible, and I don't like to live in chaos so this would not be the life for me. But I do desire the freedom that it brings.

Many wouldn't make the connection between Daniel's chosen lifestyle and the faith that it requires. I'm reading "The Shack" by William Paul Young. As I try to decide what I should do next in my life, I'm reminded by this book to take a step of faith. To stop trying to decide what is right for me, but leave everything to God.

I want to experience excitement in my life. So I try to plan exciting things. True excitement is putting your life whole-heartedly in the hands of a God who loves you. God's will for your life is to experience true joy (mixed with some heartache), but most importantly honest love and compassion.
"You must give up the right to decide what is good and evil on your own terms. That is a hard pill to swallow; choosing to only live in me. To do that you must know me enough to trust me and learn to rest in my inherent goodness (pg. 136)."

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