Faith Driven.

The faith concept has been something that I have struggled with a long time until recently. Yesterday I had a powerful conversation about how we as people are not the authors of our life, but it is really in God's hand to write our story. We live in a world where everyone has statuses and quotes on social media making you believe that you are the only person that creates your own life. When we take matters in our own hands it makes it way more difficult to live an abundant life because you are trying to do everything yourself and keep up with everyone. We are so busy trying to find our gifts alone, find creativity within us alone, or figure out life in general alone. Once you start trying to do everything on your own you end up burning yourself out and being depressed and oppressed. You see us humans are not strong enough to live our lives on our own, especially with all of the trials and tribulations that we may go through. There is only one person that can help you with EVERYTHING YOU NEED and that is GOD!

I have been around people that have been practicing faith for years and never really understood how powerful faith is, but the closest example to my life is my Mother. My mother is the only person that I know that really loves her career and what she does which is being an elementary school Teacher. She gets up happy everyday to go to work no joke. I always wondered how did she end up finding something just right for her that she genuinely loves. My mother did not grow up saying she wanted to be a teacher nor did she grow up in an environment where she was encouraged to be in that field. God, destiny, and faith literally placed my mother in her career. She was a mom before she went to college and my grandmother helped raise my brother. After graduating college she got a teaching job immediately in an area she was not familiar with. She didn't let that stop her as she drove almost 4 hours from where she grew up to start her new journey.While on her journey she ended up meeting my father and getting married, adding two new additions to her family (My sister and I).  The best part about this story is that she grew saying she just wanted to work in a factory and live a simple life. She didn't see herself teaching and and that is the beauty of faith. It is not supposed to be seen and it is not what is within your physical sight. Your circumstances does not control your destiny.

Our plans are not God plans and we do not have control of our life. Everyday consists of new beginnings and it consists of different things and situations. If you have a plan that you have been trying to go by that you created yourself and it is not working out, take that plan and throw it out the window. Consult with God about what HE would like for you to do and the answers will come. Also you have to learn to be patient in order to hear from God because it is not always right when you ask him that you will receive the answer. I cannot tell you how many times I have prayed and wanted an answer so bad, but didn't get the answer until well after.  In meantime you have to teach yourself to continue to practice having faith and drill it within yourself. Faith consists of works and it will be dead if there is no work done.