Dangerous Opportunity Part 2

crisis ~ (Chinese language version) ~ dangerous + opportunity

So I think the most dangerous opportunity I've ever experienced was when I hit bottom about 20 years ago.  I was a single mom who had been recruited for a new job in a new town at a company that filed bankruptcy a year later.  I picked up odd jobs to keep us afloat but the money was running out fast.  I was in crisis.  My family was thousands of miles away and I could have moved back in with them, but instead I chose another path. 

I chose to go to my pastor and ask for help.  For the record,  I wasn't a believer.  I had been taking my son to church for his sake in case this "God thing" was real.  It never even occurred to me that it might be real for me, too.  I just wanted $25 for groceries to make it through the week.  Instead, I came home with a far greater treasure.  I accepted the dangerous opportunity of radically changing my life.

My personal crisis revealed that God had been walking along side me long before I was aware of His presence.  And through a set of unfortunate worldly circumstances, I chose the first step in actively walking along side of Him.  It would mean changing my thoughts, habits and patterns that had been shaped by the world.  It would mean a radical departure from being the driver of my bus.  It would mean going down a path that He had perfectly designed for me before the beginning of time.  My personal crisis was a dangerous opportunity to live free and fulfilled.

It hasn't always been easy, nor have I always walked forward instead of backwards on that path, but it's an opportunity that I'm grateful for being given.  If this is what it means to live dangerously, radically, and free ~ then bring it on!

"Blessed is she who believed."  (Luke 1:45)