The Ending of an Era

For seven years I was the person responsible for putting together bridal and baby showers at our church. I took over this ministry because I felt it was an important way for us to show love, especially to those who were fairly new in the church. You see it was twelve years ago that some women in the church showed this amazing love and support to me. I had only been attending CFC for about 6 months and hardly knew anyone. The fact that so many women would show up to my bridal shower to support me when they really didn't even know me was so foreign to me. Yet that is what they did. I knew at that moment that this was MY church, this was MY Christian family and I was loved. I have been blessed to be able to pass that love on to others for the past seven years. Over the past year I have felt like it was time to move on. I struggled with giving it up. Questions haunted me like, What if no one wants to take this over? I'm serving the Lord, so it HAS to be a good thing, right? People tell me I am good at it, so it must be a gift from God that I should be putting to use, right? I went back and forth on the subject, praying and praying that God would show me what to do. Finally he spoke to me through one of my devotionals and answered some of the questions that had been bugging me. If no one takes over????It's not my problem...it's God's and He is more than sufficent to handle it. Serving the Lord is a good thing???? Not if it takes over or hinders our relationship with Him. We can get too busy SERVING Him that we stop HEARING Him. And that was what was happening to me. The Lord was telling me that I had enough SERVING to do under my own roof at this season. Well what about my gift????? My gift is SERVING, and I do not need to be head of showers ministry to do that.

With that, I emailed my pastor and told him of my decision to resign. Less than a week later, my grandmother fell and broke her hip. Now I'm back to serving...right where I need to be. God's timing was perfect, just as it always is.