Another Chapter Closed

As I stood next to my tool box at the end of the day on Friday the fact that today is closing a two year chapter in my life has finally started to sink in. As I turn in my keys and phone I realize that someone else is going to be taking my place because I am starting at Fox Valley Tech on Monday. It is strange to hear your boss talking to someone else about taking your job. To meet the person that is going to be replacing you. To pick up all of the personal stuff that you have collected there for the last couple of years and realize you won't be coming back on Monday. Many different feelings go though your heart. You are leaving what is so familiar for something totally new. It is exciting but there is safety in familiarity. As this chapter closes realize that it has been been good in many ways and tough in others. I have learned much, both in aviation and in my walk with the Lord.
Another chapter in my life has been written. I feel a bit like Abraham. God called him out of his homeland into a land that he did not know just like he is calling me into something new. There is one important fact amidst this that holds as true today in our lives as it did in Abraham's. The Author of that next unknown chapter of life knows exactly what he wants to write in it. Does He make mistakes? No Does he ever have to use the delete key like I do so many times when I write? No. He is not a author that can't be trusted because He does not know what he is doing. He knows perfectly and he wants to write a beautiful next chapter of our lives if we are willing to let him write it. It may involve sorrow or joy, hardship or trials, but the Master Author, as only He can, will weave it together in such a way that makes it a beautiful chapter. Jeremiah 29:11 sums it all up very well "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you says the Lord thoughts of good and not of evil to give you a future and a hope."