“BE BRAVE: In your journal, list two or three divine detours that have happened in your life. As you look back now, can you see how they worked out for your good in the end?”
— 100 Days to Brave: Devotions for Unlocking Your Most Courageous Self by Annie F. Downs
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I’ve had a number of divine detours in my life. The first was when I was planning on majoring in nursing at Bethel. And then my guidance counselor told me that none of the post-secondary credits I pursued in high school would transfer. I would be starting from scratch.
So through a few tears about not getting to help people through medicine, I said to my parents “I guess I could get communications. I kind of want to do what Michelle Tafoya does.”
And that was that. It wasn’t that simple, of course, but I was up for the challenge. And low-and-behold, here I am, a 24 year old sports broadcaster living the dream in Duluth, Minnesota. I truly love what I do.
The second was when I didn’t get a job with the Timberwolves after graduating college. I was one of the finalists and they called me and said they went with someone else. Actually they emailed me... that one hurt.
But... a few weeks later, I was on the phone with the news director at NBC Tri-Cities accepting a position as the new weekend sports anchor... I was the second choice after the first guy turned it down. Yes and thank you.
The most recent... and I’ll try to share without spilling tears onto this phone screen came this weekend. We got some family news that we are still processing.
I promise more details will come to fruition in the coming days. Because I think God is going to use this, even if it hurts like heck at times. I also need as many people praying as possible.
Divine detours are apart of life. Whether they are in the form of medical diagnoses or getting cut from the JV volleyball team even though you spent the summer at seven different camps. (I can now look back and see that athletics as a pursuit of action instead of covering them were NOT my calling).
There’s still fear, for are about “not getting to do the thing you want to do.” But God sees the whole story.
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