Stumbling into God's will

Sometimes I think that finding the will of God is like the ultimate game of Where's Waldo. There are distractions and imitations that make finding truth nearly impossible

But every once in a while, I'll turn one page and there he is, right in the center of the page as obvious as day. God revealed his will in an amazing way tonight.

I've been praying for a while about my desire to build up a ministry of the girls in the youth group. For a few years they haven't had many women leaders, so many of them have been missing that strong female guidance. God has been teaching me about the importance of finding myself beautiful. I see so many of the challenges women face are based around the idea that we are not good enough, that we are not beautiful either physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually.

Well tonight I gathered a group of women together to talk about a retreat for the youth girls. I asked the question, "If you could go back and teach yourself any lesson in high school that you know now, what would it be?" I thought it would take a lot of thought, but answers came from everyone without hesitation.
"Don't go running after boys." "Seek God to fulfill you." "Don't build up walls against the world." "Wait on boys"... they went on and on. And when I said, "How about 'Finding ourselves beautiful' to summarize," everyone nodded.

Something God had made me passionate about he had given the same desire to everyone at that table. God is walking before us and we have stumbled right upon his will. Pretty awesome.