Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.
What did or do you want to be? You probably have a list like mine: As a child, I wanted to be a home economics teacher. That evolved to a lawyer when I realized I didn’t have the patience to teach. The law plan’s death knell came with my LSAT scores. I was a good 
editor and an okay writer, so I ended up going down that path. It wasn’t a dream, never had been.
Flash forward, and after more than thirty years away from faith, all of a sudden I’m writing devotionals for a whole bunch of places (thank you, Tony, for giving me my start), books about returning Catholics and women saints, and most recently, an essay about Scripture that changed my life (Isaiah 64:7, in case you’re interested). Is it what I thought I’d be doing? Absolutely not. Is it easy? Seldom. Is it enjoyable? Depends on your definition. Is it what the Lord wants me to be doing? Not a doubt in my mind. Is it what He’ll want me to be doing a year from now? I’ll let him worry about that.
The author of 1 John had it right:
Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is. And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure. (1 John 3:2-3)
What we shall be has not yet been revealed; we’ll find that out when the Lord desires. In this life, our plans and schemes and dreams are worth little if they run counter to His plan for us. Sure, we can go down a different path, a path that takes us away from purification. But it’s likely to leave us unhappy… and orphaned.
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