Follow the One that has the directions.
-(Picture by Lisa R.)

At the Cancer Center I work for we have two Oncology ARNP (Nurse Practitioners). One of whom has two students shadowing her. I am not sure why I find this humorous. I work for a teaching hospital so students are always around. But these students literally follower her EVERYWHERE like a shadow. If she walks down the hall, stops, and turns around. They do the same thing. Today I almost fell out of my chair I was laughing so hard. The nurse took a patient to the front to check out. On her way back to her office (with shadows in tow), she stops by a room to say hi to some. The students follow. She then walks down the hall, and stops to talk to someone else. Then she makes a u-turn, the students do the same. This action went on ALL day. She stops, they stop. She moves, they move. I completely understand now why it’s called shadowing 🙂 . But I realized something. they are doing exactly what they are supposed to do. The only way for them to learn what it means to be a ARNP is to follow the one that’s teaching them. Then this question came to mind, who am I learning from? Who am I shadowing? Am I shadowing the world around me? Or am I following the One that knows my beginning from my end? If I want to be the me I was created to be, then it stands to reason that I should shadow the One that know who that is. On this journey if we want ti reach our “real” destination, we must shadow the One who has the direction. God’s not hiding His will or His plan. Often times we miss the destination simply because we don’t follow.