I’m not going to lie. This week was a pretty low one for me. During one of my restless nights, I started thinking about where I am in my life and what I’ve been feeling lately. I started thinking about it like this…

How I’ve been walking around lately feels a lot like my sense of direction. If I have good directions I can get anywhere, but if I’m trying to get somewhere new or I’ve only been there a few times….I have the tendency to take a few wrong turns to say the least.

That’s where I’m at right now….trying to get somewhere new.

I have a GPS now, and it helps me out a lot. Still, it’s not perfect but it can help me get a better idea where I’m going. That’s what prayer feels like I guess. At least that’s what it feels like right now. Prayer changes as God does to us depending on the situation.

I know that might be hard to hear for some, but I believe that God does change for people. Sometimes he gives us specific answers, do this do that. Other times he wants us to learn something, so he lets us make some mistakes and take a wrong turn here and there. Yet still God is also such a constant in our lives. He’s very multifaceted in that way. I think sometimes we forget that about God.

Anyway, I was walking into work one day when I was feeling my lowest, and then God showed me a sign. I mean literally. It was next to the elevator. It had a floor plan of the building, and then in large red letters it said what I really needed at that moment.

“YOU ARE HERE”

I thought about that sign all day. Even though it didn’t get any better it still reminded me that I had air in my lungs and the sun was going to come up in the morning. It didn’t guarantee these things but it did help me feel a lot less lost. I may not know what will happen but I know I’m right here in this moment and for that I am ever so grateful.

It didn’t say “you’re going there,” “you came from some place,” “your not somewhere else.” It simply said “YOU ARE HERE.”And for now it’s where I belong.