Earlier this year, I had been praying about whether or not to sign up as a Biking for Babies missionary. It is a prolife organization that proclaims the dignity of human life and forms young adults into missionary disciples, while raising money and awareness for pregnancy resource centers. After not signing up last year due to an opportunity to go to the National Eucharistic Congress, I thought maybe I would jump back in this year. However, after thinking and praying about it, I did not feel called to it in the same way that I had the five years I participated. It is the greatest organization I’ve been a part of that is doing important and much needed work, so I was not sure why I had discerned not to sign up for this year. But little did I know that God had something else for me. Ultimately, the question we must ask ourselves is, do we trust God?
In April, I received a message one morning that took me by surprise. It was a message letting me know that this person had been praying about adding someone else to a retreat taking place in July and that my name came up. This message was unexpected and with the trip being only three months away at that point, it was something that wasn’t on my mind as a possibility. But God knew what He was doing. As I thought about it, I realized that there was a reason I wasn’t called to do Biking for Babies this year and it was because God knew that I would be invited to something else. It is amazing how my prayer discerning whether or not to do Biking for Babies aligned with the prayer of someone else regarding inviting one more person to the retreat in July. It can seem like a mere coincidence, but I know it was God.
When we take time to pray and listen to what God is trying to tell us, it is amazing what can happen. Discerning what God is asking us to do or not do can be really hard. It can be difficult to hear what He is telling us. We might ask ourselves, is this what He wants or is this I want? But when we do receive a clear answer through our prayer, we must recognize that God is guiding us and leading us. Do we trust that He knows what He is doing and that He has everything planned out already?
God hears all of our prayers always. It is a matter of whether we are listening and paying attention to His response. He loves us and knows what He is doing. My prayer for today is that each of us would trust God in prayer and know that He is always working in our lives!
Faith and The Good Stuff 