Curve balls are always a surprise. I have watched some baseball, and have watched a lot of bowling enthusiasts. it is amazing how you can set a ball down on the floor in one place and then suddenly it starts to curve over and they get a strike. Same thing with watching a baseball leave the glove and it does not go where it began.
In life we get hit with a lot of surprises. I also was watching Illusionists last night on the CW. You have to be watching closely to what they are doing. However, it doesn't seem to matter they fool you anyway. I have always liked figuring things out and I can't figure those people out for one minute. I believe they trick you into watching something and then they do something behind your back or theirs. We just can't predict those surprises. We don't have eyes in the back of our heads. The hand is quicker then the eye. Life's events seem to fit that groove very well.
If someone had told me ten years ago, that in 2014 I would be a member of the County Line Church after twenty seven years at Dayspring, and that I would be now taking Zumba lessons in the old sanctuary of Dayspring. . .I would still be laughing at them. No way, not ever! Who would put a gym in a sanctuary. Life's little surprises. I can name several types of surprises, but you know them, they happen to you too!
It still takes me back to two verses. Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart. Ps 37: 5 Commit your way to the Lord (roll repose each care of your load on Him); trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass. And, naturally, Romans 8: 28 where He promises that he will works all things together for good. .
Things we desire, want, need, and the surprises are all His doing. I have learned these past few years, to like it says - roll - trust, rely on, lean on. He does the impossible. You know and must admit that you have heard Him say in your head at times. . ."Leave it to me!" I am just amazed at that whole curve ball thing. You are pretty sure this "thing" can't be worked out, it would take a miracle. And, then suddenly something weird comes out the back field. Personally, I have grown to love it.
I remember last summer thinking. . ."What is going to happen to Emily. She is in the hospital down south and now they want to send her to the one in Chicago because they can't help her?" Erik needs to move to the Carroll District and there are no homes available. We all agreed to let her go to Chicago, and in 24 hours they found the problem with her liver enzymes. In 4 weeks, Erik found a house to rent just across the street from Carroll High School. She can walk to school even. That was when I said, hands off Shirley. Make the prayer request, and then ask God for Him to work out the rest. In His time, every time. Do you trust Him that much? What stories could you tell?
No comments:
Post a Comment