Sealed Move

If I get any reader who is interested in Last Exile, they will notice that I've been borrowing post titles from some episodes of that anime series. They, in turn, happen to be borrowing episode titles from Chess terminology.


After long deliberation, I have reached a decision concerning future trips to Louisiana. I will continue to search for opportunities for short-term volunteering. Long term volunteering may become a possibility in the future, but I will wait until God opens that way up for me. Earlier posts indicate that I was struggling with this decision.

Part of the struggles we face when we are trying to decide come from the fact that we try to decide. Sometimes, the best thing to do to a difficult decision is to give it to God and let Him decide. So, even though this decision has taken a long time to make, and even though I have felt a lot of stress in coming to this decision, I have tried to lay it in God's hands.

This decision represents a sort of "sealed move" to me, because it has taken me a lot of time to decide. I have stopped and restarted the process of deciding in many different settings, and at many different times. I will continue to pray for peace in having decided, I will continue to pray for volunteers everywhere, dealing with disaster relief everywhere.

And I will count this sealed move as a prayer answered by God.