What to do when you sense there is more

Most of us live with an undercurrent. On the surface we’re living full lives and even fuller schedules. We have rich relationships and engage in activities we enjoy.

Underneath it all, we sense there is more. Maybe it’s an unexplored talent or a curiosity we’ve not taken time to resolve. It may be an inkling we had when we were young that we’ve written off as childhood daydreaming.

But it’s there. Do you feel it?

It’s there. And it’s good.

It’s desire. And it’s designed to bring us somewhere that comfort would never bring us. It’s the homing device God placed in us to remind us that as long as we have breath we have purpose.

Desire is a homing device to take us where comfort never will.

I can look back and see the threads of desires streaming through my life. Looking forward I would never have been able to guess, but now that I look back I see it. Questions at the table. Listening to my Grampa tells stories about the Apostle Paul so real it seemed he’d met him. Listening to my spiritual dad, Dad Cloud, explore a passage of scripture or a quirky piece of theology. Hearing someone tell me what the original Greek or Hebrew word meant. And then wondering for myself how I could know for sure.

All the questions, all the curiosities, all the deep listening were bread crumbs leading me through a forest of others who had no idea what was in me. But I kept following as he kept leading. It took courage to take steps in a direction no one told me to go and for which some raised eyebrows. But what I found was that there are no disappointments. When God has appointed us for something, no person can take that way. What God has appointed, he protects.

Maybe you’ve felt something similar.

We must not listen to the naysayer—even our own voice—nor can we let the desire go quiet. It means something. After all, Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Whether that means he answers the desires when we delight in him or whether he gave us the desire to begin with, they are a source of his goodness to us.

So:

If you’re a woman who shares a sense of purpose beyond the responsibilities you carry.

If you have a curiosity for something inside you that is yet to be fulfilled.

If you even suspect there is more to the Christian life than you’re currently living.

I want to invite you into a space that opens opportunity for the ridiculous things only God can dream up in us.

It’s a room outside the norm—not a church or a Bible study or a book club. It’s not a course or a curriculum. It’s an open table. It’s a year of deep connection, where we allow the hunger for God to be fanned into flame. It’s a place where labels of insider or outsider melt into safe community.

It’s where ministry grows at the pace of relationship. Where there is time. Because we have committed a year.

Because I’ve walked closely with missionaries in Europe for years and love them deeply, I’m offering an opportunity to travel together and participate in a short-term missions experience.

I won’t give away details, but we will start with a retreat experience that will settle us into a pace and a comfort with each other in our opening retreat.

I’ll facilitate the monthly group calls and one-on-ones, and you’ll be amazed how quickly the year goes by.

I’ll close us with a virtual retreat where we’ll share our last group time, one-on-ones, and even a meal together. You read that right—a virtual dining experience together. Those that choose it will have opportunity then to travel within two months of the close of the year to share in the mission of God in Europe.

Notice that I identified my part in facilitating, because what I can’t do is make it rich. That is partly your part, inviting the Spirit to continually teach you through his word, through the books, through the conversations, and through prayer. And then let him empower you for the moments in the days throughout the year that shape you, transform you, and inflame desire for him.

That is also the Spirit doing what he wills with the time that he gives us together. That’s the X-factor, the unknown. We offer him the year and ask him to make much of it.

Then we abide.

It’s good in the way that he makes it good.

I keep the group small by design. I’d love to hear your questions and would love to have a conversation going before I even open the waitlist. No obligation. But rich opportunity.

Are you ready for that?

Contact me at [email protected].