It took a friend reminding me last night of what I already knew down deep in my soul. At the beginning of the conversation I was in tears and justifying all that I wanted. However, he was quite blunt with me and challenged me to realize what God wants for my life is very different than what I’ve been clinging to. As Elizabeth Elliot said in Discipline: The Glad Surrender, “Choices will continually be necessary and- let us not forget- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.”