November 14, 2005

Going on an adventure, not certain of your path, is an amazing thing to experience. I mean this both in the "get in your car and drive where God leads you" sense and in the "let God drive your life" sense.

I bring this up because today I was in a rush to get to class, only to have someone tell me that if I parked where I usually do, I'd be towed. At this point, I kinda gave up on class and just decided to hit the road for awhile. I knew I needed gas in the car, but that was about all I knew I was going to do for certain.

I ended up in two public libraries, at the first one, sitting upstairs in a little nook between two massive shelves of books, reading about "Toxic Faith", then at the next finding a few books I've been searching for, including "the Four Loves" by C.S. Lewis. The places you end up when you just kinda let God pop the ideas into your head will amaze you. Before I headed home, I remembered a park near the library I got my books, so I stopped by to read for a few minutes, and completely fell in love with the park.

I also kind of took into heart what I've said about the trip sometimes being more important than the destination, and today was an amazing day. I saw God in so much driving along the path to the places I went, from the person that literally stopped traffic at an intersection to let me through (which I found very strange), to the friend I passed on the road that saw me just when I saw her, and waved at me. People seemed to smile and wave today, and maybe I just noticed it in a true fashion today, but God IS everywhere, no matter what people might say.

The topic of loneliness has been heavy on my heart lately. So many of my Christian friends that love God still spend their time pining for the love of another human being, or more than one, even. I have mentioned it before, but we as humans are very caught on the idea of true love, to the point where it leads many people's lives, when that hole cannot be filled by a human. The dilemma I see is that my Christian friends, that know God, still feel lonely at times. My question I think is, does God fill that spot when it's His time to do it, or are we just not realizing that the hole is full? Or both?

How do we reach a point where even the followers of God have to be segregated based on who's right and wrong? Who can be wrong in believing in Christ? Or rather, is any denomination or sect more correct than the others? Is it too complicated to just follow Christ and God's word?