They say if you want to make God laugh--just make plans. As I was doing the slalom on the highway coming to work at 70 MPH (legal in WV) I was making plans for spring. Thinking about flowers in boxes and in the flower beds, I was wondering about the colorful display of God's imagination in flowers. I had put on a short-sleeved shirt and no jacket to a fifty degree morning. Then I heard it--six inches of snow in the forecast for tomorrow.
In 1983 I started college to earn a degree in the hotel industry. After graduation I would earn a certificate as a hotel administration. Life was good. New house! New car! Aaaahhh! But God had other plans and soon I was questioning the call to ministry. Three years of questions lead to seminary. Twenty years later I am not in the hotel business or anything I had planned.
We sing the hymn, "I Surrender All" in church. Do we really mean "all"? Maybe we have exemptions for God like, "I will go anywhere but _________________ Lord!" Maybe, "God, I need you to send me this amount of money to make me happy!" Surrender means give up or cede your rights to anythng and everything.
I hope I have given God alot to laugh about recently. I had already taken out my spring clothes. Oh well. Back to jackets and gloves.
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