Anointing.

Our God is a God of purpose and intent, and he intends to impact the lives of people. He never gives a blessing, extends a gift, offers an opportunity, or creates a solution without a specific purpose. To whom God has handpicked for specific calling, established with his power, and anointed by His Spirit have been given that privilege of being a conduit through which those blessings can flow to others.

Often servant hood and submission mark the truest test of an anointed person.

I envy their peace in the midst of trial and their ability to make keen decisions with deep spiritual insight and wisdom... Many would consider these rare individuals weak and indecisive. To the contrary, it shows strength. Determining the wisest thing to do is to seek God's direction - having the incredible benefit to access the ear of God.

I feel completely ill-equipped to accomplish this. But in accordance to God's word, I fully believe I have been created, established, pre-designed, and equipped by God to fulfill that purpose. I am not capable in my flesh, but by God's glory I have been anointed. As his workmanship, my main purpose is to glorify God.

- Priscilla Shirer, Anointed, Transformed, Redeemed. 

Encouragement from my ethics book.

"Penderson (2000) reminds us that culture is complex, yet this complexity can be viewed as a friend rather than foe because it helps us avoid searching for easy answers to hard questions" (Corey, Corey, & Callanan, 2011).

My friend Kyndall and I used to sit for coffee and discuss where we thought our lives to be going, to confusion of deciding what to do with our lives, along with the excitement of being able to accomplish anything we put our minds to.

During our sophomore year, she discovered a quote from a speaker that she put up on her wall - "Sometimes the answers are in the questions." Some situations are so complex that the solution is to just keep asking more and more questions. And there is some beauty in that.