Closer to God

It's funny how God acts sometimes. You can never "box" Him, predict His ways or in any way be ahead of Him. It's impossible!

I thought being away from church for three whole months would mean being away from spiritual growth. I thought it would mean feeling separated from the one thing that gives me comfort, strength, joy, challenges, happines, freedom. I thought I would go through summer forcing a spiritual relationship with God, forcing myself to grow, forcing myself to avoid stagnation.

As it turns out, I find myself having a closer relationship with God now, He is very much present in my life, and most importantly, I can feel myself grow and develop in my faith and in my walk with God every single day! The desire I have to live life abundantly, to seek His plan for me and to pursue everything that I can be, just keeps growing every day.

I've been really busy the last couple of weeks since I came home, mostly because of work; I leave home just after 7.15 and come back around 4.30pm, feed the dog, walk the dog, make dinner, tidy house (my parents are on holiday so there's no getting away!!) etc. and meet up with friends, so there's been little or no time to just sit down and do nothing, or to spend time with God. But it's exactly because I'm so busy that I feel the need to do more, to accomplish more, to try a little harder, to stretch myself. And in all this the desire to be closer to God gets stronger, I am more determined to learn, to read, to pray. So as a result, God's plans and goals for my life have only increased in clarity, and I find myself not having to strive, to force myself, at all, it all comes naturally.