I was a teenager going through my own identity development when Michael W Smith released his seminal hit "Place in this World". Like a lot of people my age, I identified with the lyrics: a search for significance, identity, and for direction. This song is a heartfelt prayer for the Author of life himself to fill the pages.
The wind is moving,
but I am standing still,
a life of pages
waiting to be filled...
I look back on that season as one of the most fruitful times of my life when I was walking with the Lord as I have never done since. Little did I know all of the changes ahead for me as my family would leave our comfortable life in Southeast Arkansas and how a sports injury would leave me paralyzed the rest of my life.
Many days I find myself looking for my place in this world and questioning my choices, but rarely do I question the one who created me and his desire for me to have an abundant life and look to him, following him, and trusting him to fill the pages still.
