How Journaling Led Me To My Calling

 

As I am sitting on the other side of a journal launch, a place I never knew I would be ten years ago, I find myself pondering over how this came to be. 

Looking back it's so clear where God was leading me on this journey...which is how hindsight always works. 

But when it first started, when I first knew God was calling me to personally be more intentional with my journaling, I had NO idea where that was all going. 

I had not only been called out of my career in law enforcement where I had spent the last 18 years, but I had also been called to leave Illinois and move back to Texas.

A move I had not anticipated and if I am honest, did not really want. 

But as I stepped out in obedience into this major life change, and then committed to processing through it all as God was calling me to in journaling, something amazing began to happen. 

I found myself starting to journal in a way that I never really had before. 

I was inviting God into what had become a sacred time and He was showing up and speaking into my life in a way I have never experienced.  

I was actually GROWING in relationship with God during my time of journaling! 

But not only that, I was realizing that being able to DOCUMENT all that God was walking me through was a gift in and of itself.  

Not only was I writing down my honest struggles, questions, confusions, prayers hopes...I was also writing down how God answered, showed up and spoke to me in each of those areas. 

Journaling had actually become a documentation of my spiritual history! 

So in April of 2020 it was during a time of journaling where I started to realize the reasons behind why God had called me to journaling in such an intentional way.

Yes, He absolutely wanted me to experience Him in a new way.  But He was also planting the seeds and preparing me for the calling to help other women see the beauty of relating to Him in this way as well.

I didn't know at THAT time exactly what that would look like. 

But God did! 

And over the next several years, God strategically placed people, community, coaches and opportunities into my life that would help me fulfill the calling He had placed in my heart. 

The journey has been...a journey.  And I look forward to continuing to share more and more of it over time. 

In fact, I had the privilege of sharing this journey in even more detail on the podcast of my coach and mentor Heather Shriver Burns called.  It's The Seek First CEO Podcast (a podcast you need to follow) and you can hear that story HERE. 

But for today, I am just super grateful to actually be in the place where I can be sharing this all with you. 

Because my heart truly is to help women, who want to grown in their relationship with God, do that in a way that allows them to experience Him in the way He uniquely wants to connect with them. 

And that's what the Seeking God Journal was created to do.