Let me give you an example. I had been temping for this company for months. I needed a full time job desperately. I had just had my first son 5 months prior and needed the benefits and the extra money to care for him properly. I had gotten pretty settled in at this company. I made friends with co-workers and was getting the job done well. One morning I was notified that they hired someone for the very thing I was doing. Not only that but they wanted me to train this person. Turns out this girl they hired just so happened to be the daughter of the hiring manager's best friend. Wow....really? I was hurt. I was crushed. I just knew I had that position. But nope, it wasn't mine. Needless to say I left before it was time to train her and was hired temping for another company. I was a temp at the new company for about 6 weeks before I was told that they actually created a position for me! I had great benefits, and a permanent job where I would later stay for 7 years. There is a bigger story there so we'll leave those details for a rainy day. My point is, I was devastated for not getting that first job. I was sad and down about it for a couple of days but I didn't allow myself to stay there. I prayed, I tried to find the silver lining. I trusted my journey and it worked out.
Trusting your journey doesn't mean being in denial as to what reality is. It doesn't mean you ignore what is happening. It means that you realize that whatever is happening is just a comma in your story. It isn't the end. That very situation doesn't define you. If you look back at what you have made it through there is something there that you can say "Ooooooh that's why that happened.." Whether it was something you went through to later help someone else going through the same thing or it happened because there was something better waiting for you. If you trust your journey it will make that situation a little easier to go through.
I recently received some news that would devastate anyone on the receiving end of it. I mean, lol it was something that usually shocks people so much so that the people delivering the news were looking at me waiting for me to break down. LOL It was so funny to me because there was nothing they could tell me that would shock me (especially when I consider who it was coming from and I knew the real truth behind it). I had actually been waiting for this news. I was prepared for this news. I was actually happy and relieved to hear it! "YES!!!" is what I was saying inside. This, to me, meant I was given permission from God to go to the next level in my life. In my journey. I needed this news to complete that current chapter in my life. This was just a comma in my book of life but it was the end of a chapter that had was dreading. It was the beginning to the reason I had gone through so much. I know that now is my season to bloom. No more of that nonsense I had been experiencing. I could FINALLY leave it in the dumps where it belonged. I could finally have the last laugh. I was free. I'm trusting my journey and because of that I'm A-OK with everything! I'm at peace with the news I was given because I know that it is all apart of a greater picture. It's just a sideroad I took and now I'm back on the highway of my life. I know that God is using me to show my faith. To show and reflect Him in me. So TRUST YOUR JOURNEY! Trust your path in life. It will be windy at times. You are going to go through detours and bad weather. You will lose some things along the way but if you, say it with me, TRUST YOUR JOURNEY then you will make it to the end and all of those things you would have gone through will be the reason you made it to the end.
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