I sit writing this after a week of several meetings for the
Presbyterian church and a week navigating the health care system with some
family members…both political arenas that you need PhD’s in in order to
successfully talk the right lingo and more importantly work that lingo for you
to get what you need. It shouldn’t be
this hard. And yet in the midst of all
of this – God shined a light.
I am reminded of Lois’ testimony of how she can the chair
saved from the fire re-caned before the 200 year celebration. She had made a call to a library in hopes to
find an antique dealer who had been to the church, only to be re-routed to
someone else who could get it done. It was a chain of events that brought that
chair to the 200 year celebration looking good.
And it is often these types of chains that when we are “stuck” in them
we cannot see God clearly. When we step
back, however, we can see how God can work in round about ways in our lives.
I volunteered to go to Shortsville for a meeting for COM a
month ago. God knew that I would need to
be there then so that I could be close to Canandaigua when my family needed
me. It is important in our lives to
listen to that voice that sometimes calls us to do out of the ordinary
things…like volunteer to go further out of our way…or call someone you haven’t
talked to in a long time…whatever that voice is calling you to do, LISTEN! You may never know the path that it leads you
on and what wonder God has for you to discover.
