Uncommon Path Network

Dear Path Finder,

I pray you find your purposeful path, walk audaciously in it and inspire others to find theirs too.

I have dearly missed writing to you. While I feel deeply saddened by my absence, you know that I always choose to write from conviction rather than from obligation. 

For this reason, I invited a different author into this space for a season. It was a different voice, yet one that carried the same heartbeat for this community.

As I gently ease back into writing and begin to unpack the doings of the Lord in this season, I want to begin with foundations. 

Before we speak about leaving corporate to pursue business full-time, or unpack what entrepreneurship looks like as a CA, I want to slow us down. Before the plot twists in my career, the losses, the isolation, the valley victories, the last-hour breakthroughs, the growth that came in a shaky economy, and the burdens that outweighed my bank balance, I feel compelled to start here.

I want to ask a simple yet confronting question, what if there was nothing to gain?

Would you still pursue God if you had no prayer point to bring before Him? I invite you to pause and reflect for a moment.

What motivates you to pray? What is the incentive behind your fasting? Why do you pursue purity? Why do you attend church? Would you still do these things if you were not promised progress, reward, or growth?

I sit with these questions often, and I cannot help but weep when I do. I realised that nearly sixty percent of my devotion had become centred on requests. I was constantly asking for direction, making declarations, interceding for others, laying down complaints, and quietly asking, “When, Lord?”

Yet all along, He was inviting me to simply sit with Him. He was calling me to enjoy His embrace, His warmth, and His love. He was inviting me to be still without anxiety about the next task, and to resist the urge to fill the silence with music or sermons simply because being quiet with Him felt unfamiliar.

I began to ask myself deeper questions.

If I were not promised good plans for the future, would He still be enough for me? If I were never prophesied to be a great woman of God entrusted with much responsibility, would He still be enough? If I were not told that I would impact nations or reminded of my gifting, would He still be enough?

Would I still lose track of time simply enjoying His sovereignty?

And if the things I pray for so fervently never come to pass, if marriage delays, or if my career never unfolds the way I imagined, would I still proclaim that He is good?

I invite you again to pause and reflect.

This foundation matters deeply, because it shapes how we show up during unpreferred seasons. It determines whether we pursue God for His hand or for His heart.

So before I invite you to journey boldly in your unique path, I want to ask you one final question.

Who is He to you?

With all my love,

Shalom,

Oyena