Today I was really touched by God's love and mercies toward me. Lately, I can't help but be so grateful for little simple things like beautiful sunsets and amazing expanses of stars up above. I look at them and am just filled with an awe that my Lord would give me those gifts simply out of His love for me.
Today another thought went through my head. If I had had the summer I desired, then I would be traveling around Africa spending my time meeting my penpals there, enjoying every moment of ministry in a refugee camp in Uganda, teaching orphans in Ghana, and shadowing the caretakers of AIDS victims in South Africa. Instead, I am here in America and daily given opportunities to be with friends and family before moving to New York City for several years. It is amazing all of the relationships that have been positively impacted this summer because I am here instead of Africa.
My point in writing all of this is partially to simply express my gratitude and joy for what Jesus has been giving me lately. Yet, I also write to inspire all who read to seach for that which is good in what God has given them. I know things can seem pretty crummy at times, but I also deeply know that whatever is bad in man's eyes - if it is given from the Lord - then, it is being misjudged since He only gives us what He deems good.
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. - Isaiah 55:8, 9
"For I know the plans that I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope." - Jeremiah 29:11
Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. - James 1:17
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