Rebecca Soto
Today marks one year since we moved to Florida.
One. Whole. Year.
Wow.
When we first moved to Orlando we thought we had our lives alllllll figured out. We made the decision to move here and literally had the next five to ten years of our lives mentally planned out. A year has passed and our lives look nothing like we thought they should, and that is so humbling to me.
In Jamie Wright’s book, “The Very Worst Missionary,” she expresses her struggle with this phrase: “Do the next right thing.” As a former missionary in Costa Rica she has experienced what it is like to, “’Do the next right thing,” and then have her plans completely change, her life flipped upside down, and bad circumstances happen all while trying seek God’s guidance for that next right thing. She would rather go by the phrase, “Do the next most practical thing after careful exploration of the facts, so that even if it turns out to be the wrong thing, at least you can say you made a solid decision based on sound research, and if after a period of evaluation you find out it wasn’t the right thing, then you can try something else. God will handle the rest.’”
It lacks brevity and catchiness, but I couldn’t agree with her more.
Rebecca Soto