I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

— Ezekiel 36:26 (NIV)

It’s funny sometimes, how it seems that God is doing things behind your back and right in front of your face at the same time.

Leaving Downtown Tacoma yesterday for the last time until I come back from traveling, was bittersweet to say the least. I think I was actually sort of sad. Jesus has been doing some major work in me, opening my eyes to the reality of where I’m at in the “now”. For the last year being at work each day wasn’t something that filled me up or gave me joy of any sort, but I’m starting to think that I just wasn’t willing to see it the way I was supposed to.

Perspective changes everything.

Since graduating a few months ago, there has been a rapid progression in how I’ve interacted with my job. Work has become more than just a place to go and make money – it’s becoming a special place, with unique relationships. More and more I’m seeing my coworkers with the Father’s eyes, and it’s a beautiful thing. I love that every day there is a new opportunity to exude the love of Jesus and point others to His goodness, to be an example of what it looks like to do work unto the Kingdom and not the world. It’s almost as though it’s taking my leaving for a bit to evoke this response in my heart, to make me see this from this angle. An I was supposed to be looking from this whole time. It feels like one of those stone to flesh analogies; I was hardening my heart to the idea that I couldn’t thrive in the present, it was just a “stepping stone to get where I needed to go”. And while that’s theoretically true, He’s giving me a new heart, a new spirit and I’m finding it’s more fulfilling to choose to enjoy where He’s got me for this season. There is so much here, so much I could have missed. But how gracious is the Father that I now get the chance to experience what He could have let me fail to notice.

This is such a cool thing, it’s just totally Jesus.

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