Destination unknown...

This is the fourth post about my faithcation (see previous posts in archives on left.)
When you begin a trip, most people know their destination. They may not know how they will get there but they know where they intend to end up. Well I have to say a faithcation doesn't have a destination, not one I know of anyway...
Many people who have read the blog or learned of my faithcation have asked what am I going to do once I become a lay pastor? To be honest, I have no idea, as that is not up to me.
I have been praying for 2-3 years for God to show me His purpose for my life. I have known for a while that there is something more I am supposed to be doing but I had no clue what that is and for the most part still don't.
I tried to figure it out on my own but was getting nowhere. So I just started praying a very simple prayer, "God let me hear your plan for me. I know you are speaking to me, just let me hear it." I repeated it almost everyday for 2 or so years. I was growing impatient as I had reached a point where I knew I would follow God's plan if only I knew what it was. I was ready to know. I was ready to get going. But I could never hear it. Until recently...
I was trying to figure out whether I was going to join this church. I was very conflicted over it and then this lay pastor thing came up. For some reason, I felt a very strong calling to join the class but was wrestling with joining the church. One evening as I was discussing the lay pastor class with a friend and was trying to explain my hesitation, I was struck with a thought. And when I say struck that is what it felt like. The thought came to me out of blue, "Silly girl, here you go again trying to figure this out on your own. What makes you think this is your decision?" Suddenly I got it. For months God had been leading me to this church. I wont say against my will but I will say against my logic. God was leading me and I had been swimming against the current. In that moment, I got it. I was supposed to go to this class to be a lay pastor and I needed to stop fighting the decision to join the church.
But He stopped there, that is all I heard. God didn't elaborate on what I was going to do after. He didn't tell me the destination, He just showed me the first step of the journey. So for now it is a cliff hanger. It's like I just watched the season finale of my favorite show and now I have to wait 3 months to see what happens next. "It is not necessary that we should know what God's purpose is. It is necessary only that we decide to fulfill it," a quote from Dick Wills in Waking to God's Dream.