Even though it may be tempting, now is not the time to settle for anything less than God’s best.
Can’t you hear Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers singing “The Best Is Yet To Come”? Well, I surely can. Smile. The song says—
God’s gonna really blow your mind He’s gonna make it worth your time For all of the trouble you’ve been through The blessings doubled just for you
Guess what? The best Is yet to come …
You ain’t seen nothin’ You ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Listen, you ain’t seen nothing yet! Hang in there. The best—God’s best for YOU—is worth the wait.♥️
I love you,
Shaun
**On another note, this was too cute not to share. It’s an excerpt from my journal entry written on May 2, 2015—
“I took one of those FB quizzes about “what is your gift?” I got music. It said that you can channel a song for any occasion. Lord knows that’s true! Every morning and all through the day, a song is playing in my head. I actually mean- ALL day long!”
“You gave me A second chance You forgave me like only You can You gave me A second chance.
For You’re the God of a second chance.”
Yesterday, while I was trying to figure out what God was doing with my life—because I had not remembered asking to go the route my life seems to be going at the moment—I had one of my “aha” moments. On several occasions in my life, I missed what God was doing because I was so focused on things not going the way I planned or looking like what I envisioned. The opportunities to have what I always dreamed of were there, but I kept missing them because I was so focused on my circumstances rather than the opportunities.
For those who haven’t been following me long, as a child, I dreamed of “world peace.” President Jimmy Carter and Sally Struthers were my inspiration. In my eyes, they were both doing things to save the world, and I wanted to help.
In middle school (junior high back then), I started taking French and Spanish classes. Then, I met a group from Switzerland who was visiting our school and decided I wanted to live in Switzerland—hence the reason I’m so set on the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. By the time I reached the 11th grade, I already knew I would be living abroad doing some kind of work to make this world better. I had a French, student teacher who had just returned from a mission in Sri Lanka. She had a nose ring and wore saris and sandals, and I thought she was one of the coolest people in the world. She told some of the best stories. Then, I had another student teacher, a UN Peace Keeper, who did mission trips around South Asia. Y’all, I just knew I would eventually be like them until I had a dream and saw myself at the UN speaking to leaders from so many nations. That’s when I decided I should go more of the corporate route and become a translator or interpreter.
Long story short, NONE of it happened!
Instead, I went to college for a semester and decided college wasn’t for me, so I joined the Air Force. Now, here’s where the opportunities came and kept coming, but I missed them because they didn’t look like what I spent my entire childhood planning for. When I was in Basic Training, I was asked if I wanted to take a foreign language test for either French or Spanish or both, and I declined. I was too afraid I wouldn’t pass them. Get this, they asked me TWICE! I declined both times. The next opportunity came when I received orders to Germany. I didn’t want to go to Germany, so I never took advantage of the opportunities I had there. Opportunities like learning the German language or traveling to France. I was stationed near the border and about a 4-5 hour drive from Paris—we even had tours going there all the time—and I didn’t go. Was waiting on my boyfriend to go with me (that’s a whole-nother story🙃). I also wanted to go to Greece and didn’t go. Y’all, I was even stationed in Turkey and didn’t go to Greece. Now, don’t get me wrong, I did travel within both countries but never did the things I said I wanted to do because I couldn’t see past what I envisioned. Talk about a word!!!
So, yesterday, while I was trying to figure out where God was going with all this (a few more things happened yesterday that had my mind spinning, too—this has been some week!), He dropped in and reminded me of those missed opportunities. He told me that even though what was happening didn’t look like what I saw, this was it! This is part of the process. If I want to get where I saw myself all those years ago, I must go through this first.
Ha! Then, this morning, I saw the Facebook memory above.
Full circle.
A second chance.
Last June, I started my term as president-elect, and on June 1st, I begin my term as president.
Found this beautiful reminder by Dr. Maya Angelou in my in my saved photos (April 30, 2020). “I’m a woman. Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, that’s me.”
“Phenomenal Woman” by Dr. Maya Angelou
Such a beautiful find!💎
And timely!
I’m currently reading Dr. Angelou’s book, “A Song Flung Up To Heaven.” I read it ages ago and recently found it after my mom passed. It was packed away with her things. When I read it the first time, I read it without stopping to soak in her stories. Now that I’m older and in the process of finding my space in this over-50 community and the work that I’m finding myself drawn to, her stories are hitting differently. I see her.
Mother. Daughter. Sister. Friend.
Advocacy. Politics. Equality. Human Rights. Freedom.
I’ve been singing worship songs a lot lately. Sometimes I feel as though I’m singing and worshipping for others, not only for myself. So if you need this, I’m singing the following for you—
He’ll wipe the tears from your eyes. He’ll make a way out of no way—out of no way—out of no way. He’s the answer, hallelujah. There’s nothing God can’t do.
Now, I don’t know if that’s how the song actually goes, but that’s how I’m singing it this morning. Know that God’s got you! Whatever you’re going through, turn it over to Him. Place everything in His hands and at His feet. You may not see it, but He’s working behind the scenes making every crooked road straight. He’s got YOU!!
It’s Shaun’s World 
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