{"id":22137,"date":"2026-03-11T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/let-god-define-you\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:13:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:13:36","slug":"let-god-define-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/life-advice\/finding-life-purpose\/let-god-define-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Let God Define You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as I was finishing up my booksigning at the International Christian Retail Show (ICRS) in Orlando a few years ago, I noticed a woman waiting at the edge of the <em>Guideposts<\/em> booth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just ran out of books,\u201d I explained, as I walked over to her, \u201cbut I\u2019d be happy to mail you a copy from my personal stash at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh that\u2019s Ok,\u201d she said. \u201cI actually just want to talk to you.\u201d I smiled but I was actually worried that maybe I\u2019d met her previously and didn\u2019t remember her. Just as I was about to ask if we\u2019d met before, she took my face into her hands, looked me square in the eyes, and said, \u201cQuit saying you\u2019re not a speaker. Stop saying that you\u2019re only a writer. Did God tell you that you\u2019re only a writer and not a speaker?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I shook my head no, trying to keep my composure. \u201cThen stop saying it. Only say what God says. Let Him define you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that, she removed her hands from my face, walked away, and I never saw her again.<\/p>\n<p><em>How could she have known?<\/em> I wondered.<\/p>\n<p>Just the night before, in the privacy of our hotel room, I had said to my husband, \u201cI think I\u2019ll call my sister and see if she wants to speak at that women\u2019s conference that invited me to keynote. After all, she\u2019s the speaker in the family. I\u2019m just a writer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I had planned to call that conference director when I returned home from ICRS and give her my sister\u2019s contact information, but apparently God had other plans. It was a turning point in my journey. It was the day I stopped defining myself and started allowing God to define me.<\/p>\n<p>I did call that conference director when I returned home but not to give her my sister\u2019s information. Instead, I called her back and said, \u201cYes, I\u2019ll do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I can look back now and see that God was preparing me to be both a speaker and a writer\u2014even as far back as my college days at Indiana University when I ended up minoring in Speech Communication. I thought I was just minoring in Speech because many of its requirements overlapped with my journalism major, but it was all a part of God\u2019s plan for my life. 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