March 3, 2006

As I got better from being sick, I realized one thing that I truly, truly want to do, as soon as possible.

I want to go on journeys for God. I want to go to different places, different states, maybe even eventually countries, to see God in every place that I can. I don't say this because I only hope to re-discover God in various physical places, but because I'm eager to see how God acts all over this country and planet of ours. I'm only a child in my spirituality, and I want to grow to maturity. I think seeing what God does in our world can only serve to help that.

Tonight, I realized something, while at work. This seems like such a ridiculously stupid and infantile, obvious thing to realize, but I just got this, truly. Things take time. And by that, I don't mean our time. In our impatience as humans, we get so uptight when things don't go in the exact time we want them to. We put aside the thoughts that things might be happening as they do for a reason, and that God may be waiting to show us something in a time we find as going too slowly. I finally realized that when it takes longer to close than normal, it may be for a reason, in what God wants to show me, or my co-workers.

On my drive home from work, I was extremely tired and ready for some sleep. As soon as I got to my house after the windy drive home, I noticed something. Stuck underneath my windshield was a notecard. I honestly don't know how it didn't fly off of my windshield on the way home, but I think I have an idea. As I read it, I realized it was a note from a couple of my friends that had stopped by work tonight, but had to leave because of how busy we were. It was a highly encouraging note, and made every hardship from tonight worth it, to me.

Is it not amazing how God can use the acts of other people to let us see how He works? Isn't it so astounding how He can use those acts of others to keep us going and to use our acts to help even more people?