I was referred to the Assemblies of God main website a few days ago to see an interesting interview between Dr. George Wood and Mark Batterson. You can check out the interview here, www.ag.org.

What I wanted to write about was a little snippet that I heard from Dr. Woods about Jacob. He mentioned that after the death of Rachel, “Jacob journeyed on”.

A few things popped into my thought stream….

The concept that Jacob continued on with his life is powerful and impacting. What about the reverse angle on this? What in life makes you stop the journey…even if it’s for a short time period? What grabs your attention in life and literally slows time down?

Off the top of my head…

+ Beginnings: When something or someone is birthed into this world, we are forever changed or impacted. Children shape and change our life continually. Programs, business, churches, etc. become our “babies” to and thus cause an impact in our lives as well.

+ Failures: Without out a doubt failures are hard lived lessons. They are what give us our “experience” factor in life. Failures can be stumbling blocks or they can be opportunistic advances. Either way, we don’t forget them.

+ Death: When someone dies, a piece of us dies too. We feel it deep in our heart. A connection is gone, broken, or torn. Something is just flat out missing. Time almost stops. Fear grips our heart when love ones die, because we found self worth in them. We found love in them. We found courage in them. When someone dear leaves this earth we are changed forever.

+ God: Anyone can make a great argument that all of the above are directly related to this category. I won’t stop you either…but in an effort to categorize this I feel it is appropriate to explain. God moments start at conception in your life. They are the miracles in your life…salvation, supernatural moments, etc.

(Obviously these are not in order.)

All of this equals one thing…”your story”.

What is your story? I’m still learning to develop mine. I know how it begins, I know the first thirty years, and I definitely know what I dream it to be…but whatever it ends up being is still unknown to me. That being said, I hope that my dreams and God’s plan for me collide somewhere. This is what makes me journey on…and I think it’s why Jacob journeyed on too.