Earlier I was sending a message to several of my FaceBook Friends and was cut off. Therefore, all of you get to read the message. I was writing about ideas by which I have learned to live; and the one for this day was " In all thy ways, acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths." All of us have wondered from time to time, what we were supposed to be doing or where we were going or what we were here for.
Not in a spiritual way necessarily, but in life, generally. I once was fired for being a poor teacher and I was heart broken because I knew that was not true. I had offended someone. Still, I was lost, depressed, mired in self-pity and had no direction whatsoever. No, I wasn't in a church, hadn't been in years; but my DH and I did often talk about G-d. We had grown up with the belief that He was in charge.
I had quite a depressed summer. No district wanted me. One Tuesday night I went to a play at Casa Manana (my sister kept season tickets) and saw someone with whom I had been in college 14 years before. When I told her that I was looking for a teaching position, she simply asked whether I had been to the Birdville District. I thanked her and the next week, went for an interview.
A week later, I signed the contract that completely changed my life in every way. Two years later, my life was changed. A year or two later, looking back on the entire situation, I could only realize that each thing which had occurred (including being fired) led as straight to the teacher I became as if I had had a map. I had not. I had stumbled rather blindly into the happiest times of my entire life.
Several years later as I changed from teaching choral music to teaching high school English, I realized that my path had been as directed as if I had had a GPS. Since that time, I have known that as long as I acknowledge G-d in my life, He does direct my path and it is always a very good path. Most of you only knew me after... And the person you know and the teaching you have had are all the product of G-d's leadership and direction.
Just type those words and make them into a small poster for yourself; put them where you will see them every day (on the mirror, on your steering wheel, on the fridge door -- I put these words .. and others .. on my gradebook pages -- where ever you will see them) and make these words a part of your life every day.
BTW, the fact that you don't believe doesn't change the fact that the words are true. When you acknowledge G-d in the things you do, He does direct your path.
