"Then you will come to me and pray to me and I
will answer you. You will seek me, and you will find me because you will seek me with all
your heart." As a student leaving for college next year, I spend a fair amount of
time wishing that God would just post a billboard somewhere to let me know where I should
be going, as well as what I should be doing with the rest of my life. However, I get the
feeling that either God isn’t terribly fond of billboards or he has posted it
somewhere in the Sahara Desert. That simply means that I am learning to trust that God
will open the doors to the places I am meant to be. I may just not know where they are
ahead of time. The same philosophy applies to the gifts that I know God has given me. Some
gifts I have already found and am learning to use, such as my ability within theatre. For
example, I began working at Music Theatre of Wichita on a whim one summer, mostly as
something to do for three months. I quickly realized that I had a gift for the
craftsmanship, but I had no idea that I was working for God as well.
However, one day a woman came backstage and told us that theatre was one of the only
times that she left her house and she thanked us for helping to create the magic that she
saw every two weeks. It was then that I realized that God was using my ability in
artisanship to create a magical escape for people. Since then, I have returned to Music
Theatre every summer and I love watching the faces of the people who get caught up in the
story and who take the happiness of the characters and make it their own. So what started
as a whim turned out to be one unexpected way to bring some joy to the lives of people I
would never otherwise meet. God does indeed have his plans.
