Why You Are Valuable

P.S. This isn’t about me

While this is not my usual Monday morning post, I thought you might do me the honor of sharing a coffee break and considering this along with me.

Here’s something new I learned this week.  This blog is certainly not about me.

(My sister is laughing out loud right now, as she feels that all things – according to me – are about me.  But, no, Kristy Louise, they aren’t.  XO)

When I started writing, I had a stock pile of crazy experiences, filled with lessons-learned to share.  And some of this stuff is rather extreme and altogether hilarious.  Just wait until I break out my Olive Oil story!

We’ve often joked about how reality-series-worthy this little life of mine is at times.  I figured that’s why God told me write.  That is why I’m doing this, after all – because He asked.

And I’ve come to realize just how stubbornly & punctually Mondays arrive.  As each week ticks by, I’m thinking about what to prepare.  But some weeks the Lord has been “quieter” on the topic and I’ve scrambled through my filed-away ideas, trying to pick a winner on my own.

However, last weekend I felt like God sat me down to look me in the eyes and say – “Heather Lynn Yoder:  This is not about you.”  And I’m here thinking, “It has be about me a little though, right?  Why else ask ME to do it?”  But, nope, as it turns out, there are things the Father wants YOU to be reading.  Things He wants to say to YOU.

So no matter how many people read these words, those whom He needs to find them, will.  He’s super capable like that.  And my life will undoubtedly be thrown into the mix, but only as He needs to use it to make His point.

Why tell you this?  Because, ironically, you are the one He found to read this tiny blog-thought today.  And maybe He wants you to know that He sees you.  He’s enlisting someone as far away and unlikely as me to write something He longs to share with your heart.  What and when He tells me to write is out of my hands.  But I pray I’m still and quiet enough to hear Him and that you are open and prepared to receive Him.

It’s humbling, isn’t it?  This life you and I are leading.  How caught up in it we can be, and, all the while, making it about the person it’s not.  Maybe that’s a topic we can work on together.

#ItsNotAboutMe #GodsTalking

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  • Tricia Menges May 29, 2014 at 3:37 pm

    This is not news to me! Every time I read your blog I’m floored because it is clearly written for ME! Please oh please don’t ever stop. (And, I can’t wait for the olive oil story… I laughed like crazy when it actually happened so I’ll love seeing it on paper.)

    • Heather Yoder May 29, 2014 at 3:44 pm

      OH MY! There are some crazy crazy things we’ve lived through. I love that though, life is always interesting. But I feel a break-out olive oil story is not too far away.

  • Karen Bland May 29, 2014 at 10:09 pm

    I still remember the day the Lord said to me “karen” however much you think those things you do blah bla bla for others are ALL for ME theres always a little bit that Karen gets out of it too!! I was totally crushed! In a good way!! Riiiiight!!! it was a humbling conversation ! Lol