Today has been a very wonderful day.
What was so wonderful about it?
Was it that I got socks for 75 cents?
Tried some new Smores flavored coffee creamer?
Lit brand spankin' new candles?
Yes, yes but there's even more!
Let me tell you.
I woke up this morning feeling pretty overwhelmed with things to do. I had a meeting I to go to at 9:00 and woke up at 7:00 already dreading the day to come. Not that I wasn't looking forward to seeing friends or learning new information at the meeting, but I just wanted to be done with "stuff" for awhile. Not even anything in particular I just couldn't imagine putting my heart into anything. I got on the road a little late, but made surprisingly good time...until I realized I forgot my phone...which had my directions to the meeting and all my phone numbers. I had also left it at home which was 30 minutes from where I was now. So I wandered around a neighborhood for awhile hoping to find a car I recognized...no such luck.
At this point I was still ready to quit everything I was committed to and maybe move to Antarctica. (I'd say Hawaii, but I'm really looking forward to scarf and boot season, so I thought Antarctica would be a nice place.) I turned my little blue car around and headed back toward the freeway, feeling a little upset and a little bit free. I started praying and asking God what on earth to do with my life. "God, I don't know what to do. I don't know how to do anything right now. I don't know what You want. I don't know what anyone wants. I don't even know how to get anywhere." A song came on the radio by the one and only John Waller...
I wish I could see just three steps in front of me,
But the lamp unto my feet, only moves when I take a step
And I believe Your Word to me, Lord you have a history
That proves You're worthy of my faith
It's the evidence of things I cannot see
And faith its the confidence that You're holding me
Its stepping out, breaking through all my doubts
And all I thought I knew 'cause You've never lived
Til you've lived by faith...
Faith.
That's all God wants of me.
Just trust.
Trust Him.
So, yes, today was a good day. I don't really think that God uses the new common word, "Boom." (you know? "you got a pumpkin spice latte..for free? boom." "it only took me 2 hours to do all my homework. boom." ya know what I'm sayin?), but if God did say boom, I think after I heard that song He would have said, "Boom. I gotcha girl. Don't worry." And even though I didn't hear those words a peace came over to my heart today that let me know that God does have it under control and no matter what chaos we find ourselves in - He is there, and He will never give us more than we can handle.
