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God Surprises-being a fruit basket / 07.07.08, 02:18 PM
God has surprised me a lot this year. I’ve almost, but my roommates will tell you not quite, gotten more use to surprises then things going the way I expected. Today was one of those days.
Saturdays are the days with have set aside to foster relationships that we’ve built through our service sites or in our neighborhood. I’ve spent a lot of Saturday’s with kids from my youth group or school. This Saturday though, I planned to visit some of the adults I’ve built relationships with and some a little bit of time playing in the neighborhood pool with some of the community kids I haven’t seen for a while.
God I guess had other plans though, because the city drained our local pool and both adults I wanted to spend time with weren’t around. So with my plans completely thrown off I would expect my day to not go well but God put before me some pretty amazing opportunities. My and my teammate got to babysit one of neighbors children and give the parents some time to themselves. I got to play in a inflatable pool with our neighbors grand children, visit a bunch of other neighbors, and be the personal play structure for a neighborhood kid who can’t go to the local park. It was all pretty sweet and totally unplanned by me.
Today God reminded me that he has his own plan for my life and often it is better then my plan. That reality is humbling but it is also really exciting and good when I allow myself to be used in ways I wasn’t intending or ever thought possible. I’m learning it is just about being flexible and being okay that today while I expected to be a mixing bowl for cookies, God is calling me to be a fruit basket. I can defy him and miss out on whatever he had for me in that or I can embrace the unfamiliarity or discomfort of being a fruit basket.
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hi matt! got your last letters :) what’s next for you? how long are you in N.O.? i have so much to tell you!! take care and god bless!
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