Food for thought....

I stumbled upon this article after I had already compiled my Sunday finds.

I thought I would save it for a rainy day. I just kept mulling over it on Saturday and Sunday.

Then, Sunday night God whispered to my soul, "For such a time as this."

The elegance of the words in this article were soothing to my soul. The challenge they threw down, were uncomfortable to say the least. Their wisdom, from the Source of all Truth.

"God relishes surprise. We want lives of simple, predictable ease—smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see—but God likes to go off-road. He provokes us with twists and turns. He places us in predicaments that seem to defy our endurance and comprehension—and yet don't. By his love and grace, we persevere. The challenges that make our hearts leap and stomachs churn invariably strengthen our faith and grant measures of wisdom and joy we would not experience otherwise."

They are the words of the late Tony Snow.

After he was diagnosed with the cancer that would eventually take his earthly life.

This has been a hard year for some of the people who I love the most in this world. Death, divorce, devastation, betrayal to name just a few have reared their ugly heads.

I have often times been full of anger and rage that God would allow these things to happen to them. In my good moments I have allowed God to show me how He uses these things to teach us more about Him, His grace, His mercy, and His never ending Love.

But these words, they challenge me to my core.

My safe world, where everything goes according to plan, is not the abundant life God seeks for me or those I love.

He wants us to go off-roading with Him...

To discover the heights of His love, and the depths of His provision and perseverance...

And some days I wonder if I will ever get in that blasted four wheeler and try this crazy off-roading adventure called Life.