Today I’m linking up with Lisa-Jo at The Gypsy Mama for Five-Minute Friday.
Join me!
The rules: Write for five minutes. No editing, revising, overthinking, or backtracking. Just write.
Today’s Topic: Stay
I’ve always been pretty cool with going places.
When the opportunity came up during my junior year of college to spend a month in Peru, I jumped at the chance.
And that was only the beginning.
Mission trips led to more of the same and eventually a long-term commitment of five years in Indonesia. Be still my heart, I still ache over missing it.
It seems like each event leading up to the now for us has always involved an obedience in being willing to go. And we were always willing to do just that.
So moving here…was different.
The way He brought us here was equally different.
We knew, this time, that it was time to dig those roots down. Maybe not permanently but definitely for an extended amount of time.
That was almost two and a half years ago. Golly, time flies!
And somewhere in all of the moving out of the transitory state of life and into something more stable, that little word crept into our lives and settled into our hearts.
Stay.
We have always had hearts to go. To tell. To love. To reach.
And now He has asked something different of us but no less important.
I believe my Father is teaching, and has yet to still teach, us some of the greatest lessons in obedience as we learn the contentment that comes from being satisfied in Him and in where He has placed us.
And the Truth of it is that nothing has really changed. He still wants us to Tell. Love. Reach.
But this time He wants us to Stay.
Oh goodness, I LOVE this. So much truth in this “some of the greatest lessons in obedience as we learn the contentment that comes from being satisfied in Him and in where He has placed us.” I understand completely as we are on the STAY part right now, too. Isn’t it something how vast your horizons come once you travel? But the place loved the most is home. As Jim Elliot said, “Wherever you are, be all there.”
I love that quote…definitely one that comes to mind often in this season.
I hope you and your family are doing well. 
This is such a deep, obedient “Stay.” I’ve not traveled all over, but I grew up moving around a lot, and somehow came to believe I needed to never stay in one place and let my roots go down deep. Mine was out of fear, unlike yours, but it was a huge breakthrough for me when God had me stay where I’m at and quit the fear cycle, putting roots here. I’ve been here, in Seattle, eleven years. Anyways, I love your story and your obedient heart.
Thank you for your sweet words, Amber.
I think there was definitely some fear at the beginning of this season…almost subconscious fear. I didn’t know how to stay, so it’s definitely been a process of learning to trust in His plan. Life is good, though…and we’re blessed and thankful. Blessings to you! 