Believing is Seeing...
When delusional faith turns into reality
Last year I believed I would be right where I am today.
A year ago, our lived experience was dynamic, as it always is when you follow Jesus with crazy, unrealistic amounts of faith. We were anticipating our sons high school graduation and were putting our house on the market to move from Northwest Washington State across the country to East Tennessee. I had never been to East Tennessee, but I was confident that what God had next for my life would meet me there.
The trip across the country was wonderful! My dad joined us and drove much of the trip, delighting in cheap coffee and low gas prices along the way! When we crossed the Mississippi River bridge into Tennessee hot tears rolled down my face.
These were not tears of regret or sadness they were tears of gratitude for SEEING what I had held onto faith for! That God would make a way for us to go where he called us to go. It was a moment I will never forget.
About the same time last year, I had the opportunity open to me to join Called Creatives’ Compilation Book team. I had self-published a small devotional, but this would launch me into the ranks of “published author” with an endorsement of two Best-selling authors, the publishers, Alli Worthington and Lisa Whittle.
I questioned not that I could write something about a time when the Lord gave me peace in a storm of life- good golly there were plenty to choose from- but could I write vulnerably at this level of exposure?
I really wrestled with God on the story he prodded me to submit. I almost canned it myself several times and there were a few things I had to do to satisfy the publishers requirements to print it.
Today I received my (first) copy of PEACE BE WITH YOU: Stories of God’s Hope and Healing for Weary Hearts.
My essay in the compilation book is as raw as I have been publicly, and it is going out to the largest audience I have ever been introduced to.
I keep saying “So Exciting!” about this book.
But really what I feel is that I want to be quiet.
Sit wide-eyed and take in the moment that I am actually SEEING, a moment I struggled to believe for. But I held on and I am so humbled to be on the SEEING side of it now.
Last year I BELIEVED I would be living in the Smoky Mountains, enjoying life with my sweet husband, doing the work God has enlisted me to do. I didn’t know HOW it would come to be. I spent a lot of time unchaining myself from figuring out how. I spent even more time letting go and surrendering to God and letting myself BELIEVE that in the next season I would SEE the goodness of God in the land of the living…
Friend, what are you longing to see? Can you focus on believing it will be seen by your very eyes? Can you rest in the Lord’s ability to shift the whole world to bring you to that place? It is a truly stunning experience.
So, today, as I hold my first professionally published book, in my office, in my country home in the beautiful Smoky Mountains, I’m going to just soak it in, quietly let it resonate in my heart, my mind, and my soul- that what I believed for I am seeing.
Love you my Friend,
Megan Davis
(P.S. if you would like to purchase a copy of this wonderful compilation of stories of hope you can do so on Amazon.)