I’ve written a lot about story lately. And I’ve been talking about it quite a lot too.
This week I’ve been featured over on Jeannett’s blog, Life Rearranged. Her “About” page starts off like this:
“I never thought this would be my story.”
Oh, girl. How I can relate.
So she asked me to do a guest blog post about how my life turned out differently than I’d ever expected it to unfold. How my life, in essence, has been rearranged in ways beyond {or in many cases withIN my control}.
I never thought I’d be doing things like publicly speaking about all the dirty laundry in my life.
I never thought I’d be in conversation with so many of you because of some life altering choices I made several years ago.
I never thought I would have to rewrite this part of my life, as if an editor had returned an article to me chopped and castrated and said, “Fix it.” I’m living in the edit.
But the more I think about it, instead of just rearranged, God has rewritten me. He’s crafted my sentences and chapters to be excellent literature and not just airport rounder pulp.
Today, and for the next week or two I’m the featured blogger on Jeannett’s site. In conjunction with my post, she’s hosting a giveaway and is helping raise funds for a charity of my choice. I picked Dirty Girls Ministries {of course} because what Crystal is doing is so close to the heart that I share for young women.
Click over to read my post, participate in the giveaway, and help out DGM.
How has your life been rearranged or rewritten? Did things turn out like you’d thought?
Your story is very similar to my story except mine was after over 20 years of marriage and 3 grown children. And my husband and I actually divorced. But there is a happy ending. God helped me see how terribly wrong I was and we remarried a few years ago. We are happier now than we have ever been. This is not the way I pictured my life turning out, but praise God He had different ideas. So my life is also being rewritten and I thank Him every day for loving me through it all and for giving me my family back
wow, sunny. so glad for beautiful endings. =)
Oh Sarah. How I love your heart and your words. Thanks for participating!
my pleasure jeannett!
Sarah, I love that you are so willing to share your story… spread it wide.
You are His redeemed!
thank you manda. =)
I started my current blog last night after reading “A Book” by Mordecai Gerstein to my daughter, and it is eerily similar to what you wrote about today (both the book and the blog). And then, one of my FB friends posted to her status this morning that she was still trying to figure out the plot of her life story. We are all on the same wavelength today, I guess. Thank you for sharing and encouraging me that I am on the right path.
wow. that seems like a cool book. and i like it when we are all on the same wave length. =)
Sarah, thank you once again, and always and forever, for sharing how God has rewritten your story. It’s like His heart beat for all of us. We’ve all strayed and need redeemed! My life is nothing like I’d ever imagined. I didn’t know Jesus when I got married and neither did my husband. My hubby remains unsaved, while I accepted Jesus when pregnant with our first daughter. What a blessing that was, to know Him before the girls were born. How He knew I much I would need Him! He is still rewriting me and He asks me to live it and keep quiet a lot. That can be the hard part! ha!
God bless you for living your story out loud! deb
I find myself caught up in several “I never thought I ….” situations and I can feel and see God desperately trying to rewrite me and I am desperately trying to stop him. I don’t know why I am so stubborn, but I do know that I come here everyday to let your words hit me. They hurt. I need that.
I’m just going to say no, my life is not what I imagined.
But I’m glad my rearranged life brought me to you. It’s the better for it.
me too. we talked about you tonight. thank you for sharing your alece with me. =)
I LOVE thinking of the two of you together… sharing coffee and your home and your life. I envy you both
“…living in the edit…”
i love it!
it’s what we ALL do…when we’re honest enough to admit it & when we let Jesus do the edit we need!
when you think of it…all the other choices really suck!
love ya,
dad
What I’m finding, living here in the edit, is that as painful as the rewriting might be, I’d never trade it for the original version. God’s story is always so much better than my own.
i agree. i’m glad He writes a better story than i do. =)