So I’ve begun working on a TIMEline of my life. Currently I’ve just finished documenting most of my academic achievements as well as some of my spiritual landmarks like water baptism. What I’m coming to realize is that so much has happened in my life over the last 40 years: good, bad and ugly. Granted these first steps are a bit easier because I have certificates for most of these achievements. The only real plan I have in filling this TIMEline is to document the events that I have solid dates for hoping that this will help pinpoint some of the other not so clearly dated events. So the next steps will be documenting my criminal escapades that are on record. Next, will be figuring out when and where I lived throughout my life.
One of the main reasons that I’ve begun this endeavor is to clarify the many God moments in my life. But, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I it would be so much more beneficial to document the whole of my life because in clarifying where I’ve been will help to show all the more the immensity of God’s grace and mercy towards me. This TIMEline is only the beginning, the skeletal framework in which I will then begin to flesh out by adding the many details to various events and how they impacted my personhood: my identity, my understanding of love, my longings to belong and be accepted, even my sense of purpose or lack thereof. To be honest, all my memories seem to be swirling around in this gigantic swirling whirlpool of thoughts and emotions. And though this seems like a monumental task, I’m filled with an eager expectancy because I know that God will be glorified in all of this and people will be blessed.
“They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death” (Revelation 12:11 TNIV).