An Introduction

I believe that every person on earth shares a similar idea of how life should be. You’re born, go through childhood, then become an adult and passes on into eternity while going through various experiences of life, love, and little hardship, but overall fulfillment. For the sake of this blog I call it having a “classic” life. Classic. Normal. Remarkably typical. As adults, the majority of us want to find a career that we love while finding a special someone to marry, have children, and grow old with....till death do you part right?!?!? Nothing wrong with that at all. It’s what I along with millions and millions of people have dreamed and prayed about for years. 
I believe the Lord had (and still does) have wonderful plans for me in my life. However in my own personal life, and maybe in yours too, I didn’t account for the type of hardships I would have to endure in this life. Overall I am grateful because it always could have been worse, yet some of those interruptions throughout my life were difficult for me to understand. The blessing in all of it has shown God’s presence and character. He’s shown me He’s been with me the entire time. From birth till this very moment. I Peter 2:9 says,  “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light” (New King James Version) The NIV version says we are God’s special possession and I’ve even heard it say that we are set apart, belonging exclusively to God. Me? Chosen? 

Being set apart.....being peculiar...... is simultaneously a humbling fact as well as an amazing and wonderful thing. Knowing He has good plans for me (Jeremiah 9:11) and He works everything, good and bad, for my good (Romans 8:28). I’ve only recently have begun to understand that my classic plans and His peculiar interruptions make for a unique story. It’s a story that sometimes has left me embarrassed, confused, having feelings of loneliness and sometimes rebellion. Even after all that it has brought me closer to the One who created me and knows the beginning and ending to this God ordained story. 

I admit right now to you that my life is NOT a finished product, but a work in progress. I’m sharing my stories through this blog with you praying that someone will be able to relate....that God will let the right person see this and know they’re not alone. Or on second thought, maybe it’s yet again the Lord’s peculiar way of seeing His presence in my life. Only time will truly tell. I do know THIS for sure.....That’s there’s nothing wrong with having a peculiarly classic life. 

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