My Social Media-less Life

The Lord has been teaching me a lot about myself in the past few weeks, and the biggest lesson I’m learning is that I have an overall calling and what I’ll call a “seasonal” calling. It wasn’t until last Saturday (before the apocalypse– I mean, the eclipse) that I realized my “seasonal” calling is simply to be a friend. And it wasn’t until I said it out loud that I realized how true it really is.

“What does that look like, Erica?” I don’t specifically know, but over the last week since that revelation was made known to me, the Lord has been teaching me.

Last night (Saturday after the apocal– eclipse), our church had the second night of our women’s conference. The first women’s conference in 5 years. We were all a bit rusty, but the special speaker we had last night did not hold anything back. During her sermon, I kept hearing the Lord tell me, “You’re a facilitator. You need to respond to this.” And when she gave the altar call, I responded.

For the first time in… my whole life, I didn’t need someone to pray for me or lay hands on me for me to encounter God. That sounds a bit like a sad statement, but I look at it as growth. Because when I got up from my encounter, the Lord pointed out some people– friends– He wanted me to talk to and gave me specific messages for each of them. As I talked to each of them, I also heard the Lord repeat that refrain, “You’re a facilitator.”

Today, I saw each of those people I talked to last night and either the Lord gave me new eyes to see with, or they are all different people after last night. Or maybe both of those are true. It was very fun to see regardless.

This was just a note to tell you what has been going on in my life the past few weeks. This weekend, my two best friends and I are going on our road trip, and I feel like that’s a continuation of what the Lord has been showing me… or maybe it was the beginning since He led me to set that up before the first of the year and I’ve just been growing from that point.

All in all, the Lord is good.