SSMT: Verse 7

I remember the day I had my interview at WBCL. I remember driving through the unfamiliar streets of Fort Wayne, one eye on my newly acquired GPS, Calvin, one hand gripping a Starbucks frappuccino and the other hand gripping the phone. {I'm known to drive with my knees when I run out of hands.} Sunglasses in place, black ruffly dress and red peep toe shoes {and I don't even like peep toe shoes}...I felt like such a grown up. And somewhere, in the deep recesses of my heart, I had a feeling life was about to change.

And change, it did. And change it has...daily, it seems, since that first day of feeling all grown up in my red heels and black ruffly dress.

It has changed in ways I never imagined...and not changed in ways I thought it would.

I sat in church yesterday staring at my newly-cleaned-and-sparkling wedding ring and thought back to last Easter, which felt very hopeless at times. I never dreamed this Easter I'd be going to lunch with my husband's family.

Before we went to church yesterday morning, I sat in bed, journaling and reading my Bible...reading about the resurrection from the book of Matthew. And I found this verse:

...he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you.

~ Matthew 28:7

Those words leapt to me. He is going before you. Regardless of the changes before me...and they are many...and they are largely unknown...He is going before me. He will go. I will see Him.

There is so much comfort in knowing He goes ahead. He went ahead that day in Fort Wayne. He prepared a job...and a whole new life for a girl like me. 

And He will go ahead now - into the mystery ahead - and I will see Him.