Texas Job Talk

Skyla laid down in the hotel bed with a mind spinning through thoughts of the 24 hours that stood before her. Tomorrow, Monday the trucking guy from Texas had promised to call her. He would want an answer from her; would she be willing to come to Texas and commit to him long term. She could not speak with her mouth a promise that wasn’t hers to give. She had promised God that she would turn over her life to the new chapter he had for her. And she had foreseen a proposal that would appear in this season with a script that her soul would recognize; two voices speaking as one and two hearts completely knitted together in one vision and one goal. It was the path made straight with no more detours or crooked roads.

She had watched her son come and go over the last several months and only last week he made his final departure from California in a 24 hour drive back to Texas. His car back home with his Dad had placed a finality over the decision he had made which pierced Skyla’s heart. And yet she accepted it because she had to. To pray “God’s will be done” every single day of her life was to believe that all things were working for her good and even the dreams she watched shattering before her and the visions that came and gone were all part of the process of letting go. She wanted the divine story that was scripted in Heaven and she knew that forcing her will or trying to control the people who came and left her life was a sure way to catch another detour she couldn’t afford to take.

So on this night she prayed again.

“God, you know my heart and you know the very reason you made me and sent me to this earth. You have the wisdom and the glory in all things you author in my life and I ask you to write tonight with the pen of the straight path. Let me not take anymore detours that delay the journey through the Wilderness to the promised land. I’m here Lord. I followed your voice the best I have known to. I ask you to speak loudly the voice of love to me now. I ask you to slam this door shut with Majestic if it’s not your perfect will and straight and narrow path for me. But if it is the path you have for me, I ask you to make it so bright, so gleaming with joy and acceptance and abundance that I can’t possibly pass it up. Make your will known to me Lord and do what only you can do. God I have asked you for a job that will align me with my purpose, bring me joy and love and laughter and fulfillment. I have asked you for a partnership with the person you wish for me to walk hand in hand with in purpose that fulfills a divine mission and I’ve asked you for a home where I can lay my head in peace each night. My journey has been long and exhausting and I’ve eaten the daily manna and I’ve struggled with doubt and I’ve been persecuted and despised and I’ve had many doors slammed in my face. Deliver me to my destiny Lord. As my Father who only gives good gifts from Heaven, I ask you to take full control of my life and give me the glory that’s not comparable to the suffering of my past. I lay this down at your feet tonight Lord and ask you to speak loudly to Jason too the will that you have for this exchange tomorrow. Let us lean not on our own understanding but submit to you in all of our ways and make October 27, 2025 the DAY THE LORD HAS MADE.

Do what only you can do God. You are the Lord of the my life, the author and finisher of my faith and my story and you hold the pen of the chapter you are writing today for me, your daughter. I lay at your feet and ask you to finish what you began in me – this seed of hope and desire for love. Lead me Lord. I don’t want to go before you. Speak loudly to me and counsel me as you open and close doors for me today.

In Jesus’ Name.

Amen.