Leap Of Faith!!

I have felt God calling me to do more for His Kingdom since about January. Actually, I've felt this way for a few years, but even more so in the past few months. I just feel called to doing more than sitting at a desk 40 hours a week. I have longed to have a flexible schedule for a long time where I can do more work for the Lord. My heart has never been "career minded". I'm not knocking those who are, I'm just saying for me, I do not care about any of that because all of that stuff is temporary, my heart is set on the next life that has no end, and I want others to get to that point in their life. I basically went to college because it's just what you're supposed to do now days. I couldn't have cared less about school, but I went and had a GREAT time...socially. My grades were never the best. ;-) I wouldn't trade those college days for anything though because I have made the best of friends and met some of the dearest people in my life because of those days. I also grew spiritually going to a Christian School, and I credit that school for opening my eyes to a deeper relationship with Christ than just "going to church". I have friends from there who are missionaries, and they have taught me so much by spreading God's love by leaving the comforts of home by going abroad. I knew there was something more for me than "a job". Every day I would sit at my desk longing to be doing something MORE for God, it is constantly on my mind, and I just couldn't do all I wanted to being enslaved to a company that really didn't care about it's employees. Just seems to be the norm of so many companies now days, they just use and abuse people to keep making more money for themselves not caring who they squash along the way. They will find out one day just how important money is. So...as of this past Thursday, I am a FREE woman because I took a leap of faith and have quit my job. Ironically, I quit on the same day that I was baptized 23 years prior. I didn't realize that until today, probably just another God thing He threw at me. :-) I credit the books "Radical" and "Crazy Love" for me taking this leap. The authors of these books taught me SO much. They talk about all the things that have been running through my mind for years. I have been at my job 8 years, and have tried for probably 6 of those to get out and get something else, but God just kept shutting the door on any new job opportunity I had. I was becoming increasingly frustrated wondering WHY He wanted me to stay at this place when I was so miserable. I wondered if I would ever get out of this place. But then, my dear friend Teresa introduced me to the book "Radical". I read it in February, and it was like this was God's way of nudging me to just trust him and quit. I don't think He wants me in another corporate job doing the same mindless things day after day after day while life is passing me by. I believe He created Julie for so much more. He knows my heart, He knows the longing I have to share Christ in a bigger capacity than I ever dreamed, and I fully believe this is why He never allowed me to walk from one corporate job into another where I would just be miserable and get burned out again. All this time, I've been house/pet sitting on the side. I have wracked my brain for so long wondering what I could do where I could work my own schedule and have the flexibility to work at the church and serve God more. It hit me like a ton of bricks a few weeks ago that I really believe I can make house/pet sitting a full time business for myself. I can be my own boss, I won't have another boss hovering over me all day long to make sure I'm really working, and this will give me the flexible schedule I've been looking for to serve God so much more. I'm SO excited to see where my leap of faith takes me. I'm sure it won't always be roses, but that's just life, and I know if I give it all to God, He's gonna work it all out for me. Why do we doubt Him?? He is ALWAYS in control if we will just remember that. So, I just ask you to keep me in your prayers as I travel into a new direction in life. I want God to lead me wherever He wants me. I just want it to be HIM that does it, and not me. I love my God more than words can express, and I just want everyone I know to know that, and have a personal relationship with Him. It is amazing what God can do with us if we will just let Him. So I'm saying to you, if you're reading this, you're miserable in your job, and you feel God calling you to do more than work the same mindless routine every day....trust God with your WHOLE heart and quit!! Believe that HE is going to take care of you. Life is too short to be miserable, and I know God has a greater purpose for all of us than to keep socking money into a 401K plan that won't mean a hill of beans after you die. We need to be working for the Lord, not making more and more money to buy more stuff that we just don't need. Read "Radical" and "Crazy Love" if you want your faith jolted, and want to take that leap of faith. There's story after story in those books of people who have done the same thing I just did, and what God did with them is absolutely incredible! God is awesome, and if you get to know Him on an intimate level, He will blow your mind with all He does for you!! Hope you all have a blessed Easter!!