Life is Strange!

(Yes I did already publish this one, but I'm doing it again...and adding to it)

Life is so strange sometimes! It's like, just when life is starting to feel comfortable and manageable, God throws in a surprise jsut to say "Wait a minute, your not relying on me. Your becoming too comfortable. Stop relying on yourself and let me take hold of your life." The ironic thing is that these surprises, these curveballs in life are not meant to harm us (although a lot of the time, we definitely aren't comfortable with them), but only to help us....to be used to help us grow; to help us learn to give everything over to God. One of my favorite quotes is from the movie "Extreme Days." The movie is basically about these four guys that grow up, and plan their lives with no room for interuptions. When one of the guys' grandfather dies, the boys take off on a roadtrip to claim the inheritance, and all come back with a lesson learned. At the end of the movie, the main character, Will, says "When God throws you a curveball, don't duck; you might just miss something." We may not be able to choose when the curveball comes, but we can choose when to stop ducking and hit it head on.

So do you think that maybe these curveballs that God gives us (or roadbumps, barriers, dips, ruts, etc) may be telling us to focus on what is right in front of us at the time? Maybe we're becoming to "independent"...maybe we're trying to control a situation that ultimately God can only control. I heard something the other day that said, "In our determination to find what was lost we have ultimately gotten lost along the way." Basically, by focusing on the answers to the questions, we have forgotten what the question really was. So maybe these curveballs really aren't curveballs, but helpful hands guiding us to the real path.