WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of

by Ann Voskamp

God isn’t asking for Adam’s or anyone’s coordinates—He’s asking me to seek out and coordinate my own heart with His. The disappointments and disillusions, the dreams and desperate hopes, these are already known to an all-knowing God. He asks you where you are in your life because He wants you to name the place, see the place, acknowledge it, sit with it—even befriend it.

Ayekah means God understands everything going on inside and doesn’t want a soul to hide. Not to hide from the feelings, not to hide from the hoping, not to hide from the dreaming, not to hide from the grieving. Like Adam and Eve, the temptation is to flee. To cover who I am and how this feels because I’d rather wander lost than sit with the fear of fully feeling, the fear of being transparent and known, only to experience the flooding shame of rejection and abandonment.

You can’t control the way the wind blows. You can’t control the way the currents run. You can’t control the way of waves. There is tender mystery in God’s ways. Lovers fail to love. People disappoint. Plans implode. Bodies struggle. Expectations go awry. Pain is all-encompassing and none of us are immune. You can’t control the way of waves—but you can control the way of your sail.