A Road Unseen

Today someone in my office needed to borrow a Bible. I was looking for my 'lender', but couldn't find it because it was hiding just behind my laptop. Yes, I do have 2 Bibles here. I call one my lender because it is nice and new and fresh. My other Bible has been with me through a lot and it shows it. It's all marked up and I have a bit of habit of filling it with things that I like to have with me. Reminders of places I've been, people that have influenced me, and times when God has been evident in my life.
I had to hand over this Bible, and immediately I wanted to apologize for all of the things that would probably fall out of it when looking for whatever passage was needed.

Once it was returned, I flipped through it, just to peruse how much I had tucked in the pages and feeling a little apprehensive of judgement for having so much in there. While looking through the pages, I came across this...

I didn't realize it was there, making a home in Psalms.
December 14th I got on a plane in Charlotte. I knew that I was starting something big and exciting, but I had no idea that I had just stepped onto a road- a whole new direction for my life.
That day, as I made my way to JFK where I nearly missed my flight from having to go through security all over again, I was headed to the Philippines to help with SP's disaster response to Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan for a month.

God knew I was starting more than that.

Coming across this was such a great reminder today that God is in control. Not that I doubt that God is in control, but something about it- just looking at it and thinking: I had no idea what was ahead, but God knew precisely how it was going to go down.
There are still many desires that I have in life. There are still many things that I wonder if they will ever happen. Looking back at this boarding pass is a great encouragement, because it stands as evidence of something that I believe, and that is that God is working it all out. (This isn't to say working out everything I want, but working out the details of my life.)

I didn't know what God had in store when I boarded that plane. I don't know what road lay ahead. But I'm happy that I can face each day knowing that God has it all planned out.
I can ponder what lies ahead and decisions that I don't even face yet. Sometimes I think that has to make God chuckle. In the end, it's how I face today that makes a difference. And when you trust things to someone else, there's a carefree feeling that comes.

Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain to the place where you dwell.
Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight.
I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.
Psalm 43: 3-4