Rain on me

It's been a long weekend.  And now it's Monday and the rain is dreary.  But I guess I shouldn't complain since the rain is what keeps us alive.  But the rain always comes when I feel like I need it least. It feels that way with other things too, though.  Not just rain, but timing for things in general.  Sometimes I really think we underestimate God's timing for things in life.  Sometimes we grumble when it's raining on that one perfect day to go visit the beach.  Sometimes it's that some house hold appliance breaks down just when we're getting ready to go on vacation.  Sometimes the computer crashes and you lose all you files while you're trying to write something important.  But we need to think about these things.

They could very well be "Blessings in disguise" to quote Laura Story.  It happens all the time for me.  Something will just pop up just when I'm least expecting it and instead of thinking about it as something to improve my future, I'll get angry at it for it being there to begin with.

In these times the two things we need most is hope, to hope that circumstances will get better, to hope that pain will lessen; and trust, trust that God will take care of things.  The worst things that happen to you won't last forever; nothing lasts forever except for God's love and your eternity after death.  Think of it like this, twenty years from now, will it matter that you didn't get to do something or to finish that one document or even win that one game?  Not really.  By that time you may have even forgotten, so why worry about it?  Don't stress yourself out over something that's out of your hands.  We can't predict the next weather forecast...But God can...