Back in January, a dear friend of mine and I were joking about how even though her baby was due in a few weeks, she wasn’t “officially” going to have a baby because she hadn’t posted anything on social media about being pregnant. The thought that some folks would consider something as not real because it wasn’t “Facebook Official” made us both giggle quite a bit.

Flashforward two months, and I’m giggling to myself in my home office today over the fact that I started a new position over a week ago, and I’ve kept it fairly quiet because – much like I struggled to think of myself as an author before I’d published anything and even after I’d published because I didn’t have an agent or a “real” publisher – I’ve been wrestling with announcing my new position because I’ve been hired to be the director of something that does not yet exist.

I’ve no doubt that God has a sense of humor, and I picture Him lovingly laughing as I wrestle once again to see something as real because I can only see outlines and checklists, but He has already seen it in its fullness. I’m a dreamer and an idealist by nature; it’s simply how God made me. But this old world, and my tendency to work within its parameters, have beaten that nature down quite a bit over the years. Today, I’m so thankful to be able to say that God’s reviving the dreamer in me as He teaches me day by day His wonderous truth about faith and hope, about how to better trust in Him and how to hold onto the confident expectation that what He calls me to do, He will lead me through to fruition.

I’m thankful to be learning about the power of God’s mighty “YET”.

And so, yes, I am currently a director without any teachers or aides or children to direct – YET.

And yes, I am currently covered up in planning and paperwork because we don’t have a license – YET.

And yes, the journey that brought me here has been rough at times, and may be rough ahead, but I’m thankful that God has made me to be a dreamer and oh so grateful He has invited me to create something from the ground up with Him and with my Brothers and Sisters right here at home.

So yes, I’m embracing the power of God’s YET in my new role as the Director of my church’s newest outreach ministry, an Early Learning Center.

And I’m oh so very much looking forward with high expectation to what I know God will do with my willingness and the willingness of our board and church leadership and body to respond in faith to His call to build something we can’t see YET knowing that He has already seen the growth and goodness the Early Learning Center will bring to the children and families of our community and He is already smiling over with the glory it will bring to His name!

God is good, friends. All. The. Time.

And friends, as happy as I am to share this good news with you, I also recognize that while God is good all of the time – I only have 24 hours a day and somewhere in those I should probably sleep and maybe eat and definitely spend time with my family. I’m not sure when I’ll be back to regularly posting devotions again or even when I’ll be back to working on books again. I hope to be back with you before too many weeks pass us by, and I certainly would appreciate your prayers for God’s will and guidance as we seek licensure and select programming and hire employees and enroll children and so much more. I thank God for your prayers and for the encouragement of your readership!

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