ITM DAILY DEVOTION “Let Me Check My Calendar” Woman by Aline Mello I wasn’t invited to go shopping for my mother’s wedding dress. “Where are you guys going?” I asked, because I’d overheard my sister and mother mention going out the next day. “We’re going to go look at some dresses,” my mother said nonchalantly. No big deal. “Wedding dresses?” I asked, my voice calm. “Yeah,” Mamãe said. I couldn’t believe it. They were excluding me from wedding dress shopping? Why? It turned out it was a last minute decision. They’d just decided to go shopping the next day and knew I’d have a problem with a last-minute plan. Add my abhorrence of shopping to that, and they didn’t bother inviting me. But this was my mother’s wedding dress. I needed to go. For this, I told them, I’d make an exception. And this is life. My aversion to the unknown is so strong that I almost didn’t go dress shopping for my own mother’s wedding. So reading how Beth Guckenberger seemingly glides through life, embracing the new and the strange as they come, was like walking through a pastry shop and wanting everything. I want to be carefree. I want to brush my teeth in the morning without habitually numbering the upcoming hours of the day. Sure, I’m flexible at times when adaptability is crucial. But when it comes to what I can. But I know, and Guckenberger seems to know, that when it comes to the good stuff—when God knocks you down as you’re traveling to Damascus; or when an angel comes to declare that you will give birth to the Savior, and you’re not even married yet—that stuff comes suddenly. God doesn’t request an appointment. We want to feel ready for the Lord to show up in a big way, but the truth is that we often don’t. God’s call doesn’t depend on how capable we feel. In fact, God works in a different way: He chooses “the foolish things of the world to shame the wise” and He picks “the weak things of the world to shame the strong” (1 Cor. 1:27 NLT). All we need to be able to do is say “yes.” Yes to His plan, even if we don’t know what it is. Yes, even when it seems crazy. Guckenberger said yes to God and lives were changed. When faced with the unknown, she affirms: “God writes the best stories”—and that’s reason enough for me to become more of a “Yes Woman.” Read Beth Guckenberger’s article, “Yes Woman,”
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