Are You Trying To Write Your Own Story?

"Advent calls us to stop and turn back from trying to write our own stories.  The more I try to write away the unknown, more of it seems they come out of the woodwork.

There is no peace for the unknown other than Advent:  waiting for Christ.

I forget there are just some problems that aren’t solvable by little ol’ me. I try to remedy myself with people, things, and my own good cheer.   This is the old way, where I hope in myself, my plans or my story.

God calls me to live a new way.  He wants to make His mark and to write His story instead.  As I wait for the worst to unravel, God shows up and makes sense out of the stress.

Thank God I don’t need to be stress-free, in order for Him to work in me. Jesus’ birth proves it.  Jesus came when the world was messed up, arriving small, under the most unpromising circumstances."

- An excerpt from The Hope of the Unknown by Bonnie on her blog Faith Barista