Life Unwritten

Unwritten. What do you first think of when you hear the word “unwritten?” For the last few months, whenever I heard or saw the word “unwritten” I would think of my life. My life is unwritten. Now granted, I have lived a little over 17 years, and each chapter that I’ve lived through is written. However, whenever I feel like I’ve accomplished something big, made a huge decision, or completed a task in front of me, another one seems to be waiting at the finish line, or the end of the chapter. I have to laugh because I know when authors write a book, the best way to keep the reader’s attention at the end of each chapter is to end it in a way that you have to continue reading, and that’s the way my life seems. I know God has the finished copy up in Heaven, but He certainly isn’t letting me read it or look at it.

I’ve always thought I had the Table of Contents down and set in stone. I would start elementary school, finish middle school, enjoy my high school years, advance on to college, get the job I’ve always wanted, and marry the man of my dreams. I would then have kids, maybe adopt, teach them and raise them to love God above all else, and help them write their book just like I am in the process of writing mine. I would have a beach house in North Carolina and be the best mom possible. I have to stop myself there – life is not perfect. And that seems too perfect. God knows my Table of Contents that I have in my head, but I’m curious to see how different God’s chapters are for me than the chapters I want to write. He is the perfect author, and as I am living my life day by day passionately pursuing Him, I am figuring out what it truly means to let God have the pen to my life. He needs to be the author, not me.

I’ve always heard the quote,

"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."

So this blog is going to be a bit about my life, my journey pursuing God wholeheartedly, and what I learn along the way. He has taught me more than I can fathom over the last 17 years, and I can’t even begin to imagine what I will learn in the years to come as I let God take the pen out of my hands and begin writing my Unwritten story.