Soooo I've always said that God loves to pull pranks on me. And it's completely true. I'm sure Him and the Saints have all gotten MANY hearty chuckles at me and my life.
I'll admit, at the time, I am just razzled and wondering "WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN MY LIFE?!?!?!" but I quickly learn to laugh at the newest joke in my life. It usually ends in a simple lesson, a needed reassurance, or a reminder to trust in God. Typically, it ends in me cracking up regardless of the case, looking up to the Lord, and giggling as I ask why He couldn't just TELL me I needed to do this or that.
But as much as I ask Him to do that, I also know that I have difficulty listening to God most of the time. I am very stubborn that way. So one of His favorite ways to make sure I get His message is to mess with me.
To be completely honest, I'm fine with it.
Haha. Today He was a bit rough with me. I was on my way to Indy to visit a good friend for her formal. I needed to make the 3:23pm Metra train into the city in order to catch the Amtrak down to Indy.
Problem was, when I looked at the schedule, I did not see 3:23pm. I saw 3:32pm.
As we pulled into the station at 3:20pm, we saw a train and then minutes later saw it pull away and that was when I realized what had happened. Sooooo I had to take the next train at 4:07. Problem was, this train got in only EIGHT MINUTES before my Amtrak left.
Said train decided to also be EIGHT MINUTES late pulling into Union Station. Needless to say, I ended up crying and watching as the last train to Indy departed. Dejected, I called my mom crying. I found a bus, but it was getting all kinds of creeping after a certain time if you get my drift so my dad came to pick me up and drove me down to Indianapolis. A four hour drive. Yeah. He's pretty awesome.
So where's the HAHAHAHAHA OMG GOD YOU ARE SERIOUSLY HILARIOUS LOL LOL LOL moment?
Well, I'm still kind of waiting for it.
I'm typically pretty good at quickly finding a positive in any situation and figuring out how anything that hurts me or breaks me down is making me stronger. With this, I was at a loss. A complete loss. I made it to my friend's place. It was a huge inconvenience for my parents and me. We wasted money. What was the point God was making out of that situation? What was He trying to show me?
And I just don't know. But I am absolutely sure there was some good that came out of it. I just have to trust it. And who knows? Maybe the good wasn't for me. Maybe me missing the trains somehow affected someone else. Maybe it did something for my parents. Maybe a stranger noticed me reading my Bible in the station as I waited for my dad and that touched them. Who knows?
We're only human. Our understanding of things like this is actually pathetic. Our mental capabilities are incomparable to God's infinite knowledge and wisdom. We just need to trust Him. One day, when I will HOPEFULLY be entering His Heavenly Kingdom, I will get to ask Him what the point was. I know it has a reason and is a good one. I don't know what it is, but I can confidently say there is one.
And hey. Who knows? Maybe His response will be, "ehhhh you're fun to mess with" and we can laugh about it into eternity.
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