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By Miss Rain
08/18/07
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When I was little, people often asked me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I knew my other friends usually answered confidently, “A doctor” or “An engineer” or even “A millionaire” but none of these seemed to interest me at all.

“I don’t know really,” I would answer shyly.

“You cannot NOT have a dream,” my parents and teachers protested, “You have to dream high, you have to reach for the star.”

I did want to reach for the star but the problem was I never knew which star it was. I knew I didn’t want to be a doctor or an engineer or a millionaire but I couldn’t quite identify what I wanted to be. I was after something else not yet named, a different star not yet seen, but I knew all along that it was somewhere waiting to be discovered. It took years before I finally realized that my calling was indeed not to cure people or to build bridges or to make a lot of money but to write – the one thing I had actually enjoyed doing since very young.

The journey to identify the unknown was not easy though. Many times I feared I lost my way or was following the wrong track. Often I asked God in confusion, “Why am I here? What do You want me to do with my life?”

During such times, I often thought about the Magi. I wondered if the Magi ever felt discouraged while following the star to Bethlehem. It was surely a long hard trip they had to take. Did they ever doubt whether the newborn king would really be there at the end of their journey? Did they ever think they had jumped to a wrong conclusion about the star? Did they ever get lost on their way? Did they ever have to re-route? Did they ever feel like coming back midway and just forgetting the whole thing? What did they feel when they arrived at King Herod’s palace but found there was no baby what-so-ever there? I was comforted, however, by the fact that God had always guided these faithful men amidst the unknown until they eventually met the child king.

Journeying towards the unknown is scary but I believe God has put His star in each of His child’s heart to guide him along the way. The path might be long and difficult, the journey confusing and exhausting, but in the end we’ll be overjoyed like the Magi when we finally find what He has set for us at the end of our journey.

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