Find Religion

I’m out soaking up the sun at the beach for a week, so a number of my bloggin’ friends are guest posting for me! Today’s guest poster is Elisa Collacott from The Book Stacks. Enjoy!

It’s strange. Normally you think of God’s hand being evident in the big things of your life. You know, like when you finally meet the right guy or get accepted into that perfect, first choice college. When some major tragedy strikes, you rely on your faith to get you through it. You pray for guidance when making those big decisions in your life. All of these seem obvious parts of your walk with God, evidence of God’s presence in your life.

But sometimes we forget that if God is faithful in the big things, he can be faithful in the little things, too. Like that parking spot in the terminally crowded parking lot on the day that finds you at your wits end. The traffic light that turns green just when you need it to, because you know that the idiot coming up behind you isn’t going to stop in time. Even finding that thing that you put in a *really* safe place when you desperately need to locate it again. These everyday events are just as much examples of God watching over us as the more obvious things.

I see God’s presence in my life every day. The last two major car problems we had occurred right before a vacation. Seriously. We had to buy two new cars in the last year. My husband’s engine melted while he was on the freeway, but no one hit him and he made it all of the way home with an engine that really shouldn’t have been running at all. We got a new car that we could afford at the first place that we stopped to look, and we didn’t have to delay our Disneyland trip one day. My car got hit by a piece of large road debris halfway through my hour and a half commute. But I made it the rest of the way to work, and I managed to find a cheap enough version of the car I really wanted the following week during my first big vacation in an age. Obviously, these are some of the big things. But there are also days that I’ve forgotten my lunch and someone decides to bring food into work and the times I can’t find something (like my cell phone) only to find it where I needed it to be after I had already searched there.

Before you ask, no, I don’t think that I am experiencing favoritism (I wish.) I certainly don’t get everything I want when I want it. I’ve just noticed that things tend to happen when I need them to happen, even if I don’t understand at the time why they happened when they did. I am God’s wayward child. I may not understand his timing or why he loves me when I can be spectacularly stupid at times. God takes good care of me. If you think about it, I expect that you’ll find that he takes good care of you too.

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