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In God's Time...
Joe Killian • Oct 09, 2019
Our Journey WITH God
is finished!!!...IN GOD'S TIME
It has been 5 years, 7 months and 23 days since I started writing this book, but hey, who's counting?!? It has been an incredible experience, unlike any other and I'm really excited to share it with you!
Maria, my wonderful, lovely, patient, selfless wife, was my editor from beginning to end. One day, near the end of the process, she mentioned writing another book. I said, "Stop right there! When you were giving birth to our children, did I tell you I wanted to have "another" one?!?" (Moms: please understand that I'm not suggesting that this was as tough as child birth, only that it was a labor of love that I needed to "recover" from). Maria and I laughed as she apologized and we agreed to put "another book" on the back burner, preferably on a stove somewhere very far away. While a due date for the birth of a baby is somewhat of an estimation, I have to admit I missed the "due date" of Our Journey WITH God by...a lot!!!! Not days or weeks, but months!!!!!!
I guess I should have known. If you're answering the call to write a book about a journey with God, you should expect to—go on a journey with God. I did, but like so many things in life, (especially parenting) I had no clue what was in store for us. Days of excitement about a new concept or completed section were often followed by frustrating delays driven by mass deletions and whole section re-writes. Simply put, this was...a journey. God has been good to us throughout the ups and downs and twists and turns of authoring this book, just as He is in all of life.
In God's time, the book was finished. I give God the glory and look forward to what He has prepared for me in this next phase of my journey and I hope you'll purchase the book to join me on the journey.
The story continues...I'm still working on the pondless waterfall in our front yard. I shared this project with you two weeks ago in Playin' In the Dirt. Since then I've had to rework sections of the stream three different times because we were losing too much water. I am now an expert on evaporation rates and excessive splash, two causes of water loss. This morning I tore the whole thing apart and I'm starting over.
Have you ever watched DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda? I stumbled across it recently and thoroughly enjoyed Jack Black's performance as a bumbling, noodle selling, kung fu enthusiast, giant panda named P o. Set in ancient China, it is more than a humorous slapstick comedy. The core message of the story jumped out at me as I have been focusing recently on the concept of being. Po is shockingly identified as the Dragon Warrior and he reluctantly enters training. The goal of the training is to receive the Dragon Scroll, which is believed to hold the secret to limitless power. Now I don't want to spoil the big reveal but I will say that what Po realizes is the same as what I speak to in the concept of being and authentic identity. So, where do we find the secret to our "power?" I praise You, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works! My very self You know. Psalm 139:14 God knows it; and we must seek Him with all of our hearts in order to find it. As it was in the movie, the answer is stunningly simple. Our authentic identity is already within us. The challenge for Po in the movie was in seeing himself accurately and not the way others saw him. Even his teacher scoffed at the idea that Po was anything more than an underachieving dreamer who overate when he was anxious. Po's problems are rooted in the fact that he believes the lie of his false identity much more than he does his authentic one. Is it possible that you do the same? Who could have imagined that beneath all of Po's girth lived the Dragon Warrior? What's hidden from view in you? Seek God for understanding as to who He created you to be. Spoiler Alert: the secret of your limitless power is already in you. God placed it there and He wants you to be who He authentically created you to be.
Maria and I have been playing in the dirt a lot recently. First we replaced our French drain and then we embarked on a creative project intended to change the entire look of our front yard. My brother Jeffrey and I installed a new front step.
