Yesterday, Belgium celebrated its Independence Day. (That’s about all I know; see Wiki if you want to know more about independence from whom…and then let me know, svp!)
Last night I met up with some friends to watch fireworks go off over the Palace. It was sweet and beautiful. And a nice treat since I missed the Freedom Festival Fireworks in Detroit this year. Different (for example, no 2-mile-but-2-hour drive home), but wonderful.
While walking home after the celebration, I was thinking about how often God provides what we need, even what we want, in ways different, but as good or better, than we could even ask.
Do you ever write stories of your life? I do. I fast forward a few months or a few years and imagine where I’ll be or who I’ll be or what I’ll be doing… Chapters I’ve written have had me married with a kid or two wandering through life in the Motor City…obviously, things haven’t actually panned out that way—maybe I should stick with fiction, eh? But I’m learning that when I let God write the chapters with me, they’re even richer and more amazing than I could ever write. It’s like He knows the deepest dreams of our hearts and wants to help us live them, if we’ll let Him.
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(Is it weird to comment on your own blog? Too bad--I want to keep track of these thoughts for me too.)
Just catching up on Jesus Creed--one of my favorite blots--and this was the prayer for the week--love it!
Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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