It’s interesting sometimes seeing how the Lord works in our lives.  Case in point, I recently started working on aircraft drawings, doing engineering work for a company that modifies ag planes.  Earlier this year I started talking with crop dusters or, as they are now called, aerial applicators.  My goal was to start flying as a crop duster (think Disney Planes star Dusty, for those not familiar).  I would be able to use the off season for ministry while working in the US when the fields needed herbicide, pesticide, or aerial planting applications.

But then I had a Paul moment.  I had a trajectory in mind and a plan I was working on, but in the process of that plan God has worked to give me part time design work to help pay for flight training.  He has also given me a way to use my current abilities to gain footing in an industry built on experience and relationships.  The future may yet lead to the agriculture flying and ministry combination I had in mind, but for now I am content to work and be guided into this new experience which the Lord had planned for me all along.  And at the same time I will be watching for the ministry he has for me within this new group of friends and coworkers.

⁶ And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. ⁷ And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. ⁸ So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. ⁹ And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” ¹⁰ And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.  – Acts 16:6-10