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"The best place to be is where God puts you." Fenelon

"Bloom where you're planted."

That's what my mom told me after the second move in 3 years. I was 13, just completed Grade 7 and ripped away before the Award's Ceremony where I was to receive the Citizenship Award. I was devastated.

We moved thousands of miles away to another part of Canada, but it might as well have been to a different country.

How I talked didn't fit in. How I dressed didn't fit in. I didn't fit in. I was miserable.

Eventually, I found friends, at school and at church. Unfortunately, my best friend lived out of town and I only got to see her at church.

It was hard finding my way, and I messed up plenty of times. After three years, I finally evolved from surviving to thriving.

And then I was ripped away again as we moved back across thousands of miles.

I've always been a person of faith. I've always understood God as basically good. And I've learned to depend on Him more. But trust is hard.

God knows what we need. And He desires, almost more than we do, that we live full, abundant, purposeful lives.

When difficult times come, that's when we need to 'let go and let God'.

I know that is a platitude. Almost as bad as 'bloom where you're planted', however there is truth in them both.

Do you feel you've been ripped away from your purpose or your dreams?

Is God silent and seemingly distant?

Time to grab hold of your measure of faith and ask for more.

"To depend on God from moment to moment, especially when all is dark and uncertain, is a true dying to your old self. This process is so slow and inward that it is often hidden from you as well as others." Fenelon

Faith sees God behind everything that comes my way:

• dark

• sun

• pleasure

• pain

Papa is not the author of the bad but He is the curator of my life.

I have faith that He is ONLY good and He only give good things to me. But I also have faith that He REDEEMS all the bad and creates my BEST life from it. It is this faith that lets me rest and wait for Him.