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The excerpt contrasts ordinary “invites” like chores and waiting with the author’s experience after her husband’s death, framing life as sequences of invitations and personal responses. 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[www.ivpress.com](www.ivpress.com).  \n1  \nIT’S ABOUT THE INVITATION  \nWhat was the last invitation you received? If you can’t remember off the top of your head, consider these: an advertisement is an invitation to buy something; a phone call is an invitation to talk, listen, or both; hunger is an invitation to eat, possibly to savor; and breathing? Well, breathing is an invitation to live.  \nBasically, our lives are sequences of invitations and our responses to them.  \nBut not all invitations are desired or pleasurable. A sink full of dirty dishes is an invitation to clean. A long line is an invitation to wait. A yard covered in dead leaves is an invitation to rake. Those are mild examples of less desirable biddings. Invitations can get much worse.  \nLIVING THROUGH THE END OF THE WORLD AS I KNEW IT  \nOn June 10, 2011, God woke me up the morning after my husband Reggie’s death. To say his death wasn’t a desired or pleasurable invitation is the understatement of my life. The loss of my husband equated to the end of the world as I knew it. The last thing I wanted to do that morning was to live in a world without him init. In the words of Michelle Obama,“It hurts to live after someone has died.”1  \nWhen God woke me up that morning, he invited me into what felt like an impossible situation. As far as I was concerned, it simply couldn’t be done. I couldn’t do it. I didn’t want to do it.  \nMy husband had just died and I was powerless to change it.  \n8 PART ONE: STARTING IS THE HARDEST PART  \nYet in moments of despair, invitations hold immense power.They have the ability to transform lives and shape destinies. How we respond to these invitations determines the course of our journey. They can create the possible and the impossible. That morning, amid my grief, God invited me into the impossible.  \nFor the next several nights, I’d drift to sleep begging God to allow me to wake up the next morning and realize my husband’s death was a terrible dream. I even implored God to take me too. Don’t get me wrong. I wasn’t suicidal. I didn’t want to die, nor did I do anything other than pray to end my time here on earth.  \nYou see, as a Christian, I believe and fully embrace that I have everlasting life; therefore, I’ll see my husband again in heaven. Why stay here when my partner in this life—the person I valued most and who gave me a reason to get up in the morning—wasn’there? I was simply letting God know I was ready to join my husband whenever he was ready to let me. In other words, I didn’t want to wait for our reunion if I didn’t have to. I prayed because the events unfolding in my life were beyond my control. If they’d been within my power, my husband wouldn’t have died in the first place.  \nJONAH DID IT HIS WAY  \nI believe Jonah made a similar decision in response to God’s invitation to go to Nineveh ( Jonah 1) . Let me set the stage. In an attempt to flee from God and his will, Jonah boarded a ship from Joppa (in today’s Israel) bound for Tarshish (in today’s Spain) . After the ship set sail, God sent a mighty wind and storm that threatened to tear the vessel apart. Despite the mariners’ fervent prayers, the storm persisted. In an effort to identify the cause of God’s wrath, they cast lots.  \nAt that point, Jonah confessed he was the culprit and directed the mariners to hurl him into the sea. Initially, the sailors attempted to row back to shore, but when their efforts proved futile, they followed Jonah’s instructions and threw him overboard.  \nIt’sAbout the Invitation 9  \nThe ship was in the middle of the Mediterranean at this point. It had been at sea one day, so the crew was probably closer to Israel and Nineveh than they were to Tarshish, making the closest shore more in line with God’s will for Jonah, especially since God was using the storm to encourage him to go to Nineveh. 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