Let Down

I have been looking forward to going to work this week in Daytona since last year when I found out that we would be at this location. Today for no real reason I was completely let down by the airline and travel agency. My flight was changed by 12 hours and a 3 hour layover added and I was not notified until I showed up at the airport this morning 8.5 hours early for my REAL flight. As this is the day of travel there is nothing I can do but be very upset and let down because someone somewhere dropped the ball.

I wonder if this is what God feels like when we let him down?

Just a thought.

Wild Goose Chase

I was sent on a wild goose chase yesterday at work and it got me in trouble with the right and the left hand because neither knew what the other was doing. I found this very frustrating and unnecessary but I had to be the one apologizing in the end because everyone's feathers were getting ruffled.

I woke up this morning determined to find a way to use a "patch" for my problem. This all started over a certain computer program. I need it for my new job and I guess it is not easy to get hands on this program. I found and old student version of this program yesterday and I loaded it to try and "patch" my problem.

Well the student version doesn't work with the data I am using (my data is too big) and so I was sunk. Just then God took my eyes and hands and sent me to the programs list for this computer (one they are letting me use while I work on my PhD). THE PROGRAM WAS THERE!!!! Before this laptop was loaned to me they had just automatically loaded a VERY expensive statistics package that I had rarely ever used before and had not asked for.....amazing. I cannot help but think that God designed this moment for me 7 months ago when this laptop was bought and set up for a lowly graduate student who doesn't like goose chases but can see the lesson in them all the same.

Wow. Take a moment and make sure that you look at all possible options before you set off on your own unnecessary frustrating journey. There's lessons in everything, that's been confirmed yet again today.

Have a wonderful Day!

Thought for Meditation

My pastor's daughter posted this as her Facebook status a little while ago.

"When the sky rolls up and the mountains fall on their knees, when time and space are free, I'll be found in You, still standing."

I feel that this would be a great banner for my life. I could read this every day as I find it inspiring. I am not sure if they are lyrics to a song, scripture, or if she just wrote it but I have read it ten times already this morning and keep going back to it. It is a profound statement.

We had strong thunderstorms last night and as usual I was in wonder at the power and majesty of my Lord. To think that He is so much more than that and that is what we are fighting for is wonderful for me.

Make it a goal to find a personal statement for you that reminds you to your core what we are doing here on this Earth.