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This morning when I got up, life was simple. I showered then came to my room and reached in my closet and grabbed a predetermined outfit that was already hanging together.
As I had lallygagged a bit this morning it was one less thing to have to think about and then locate items that I wanted to wear.
It was also great when I went to pack my lunch that there were items already prepared and all I needed to do was a little bit of assembling. As I exited my house in a fury to make it to my first appointment for the morning I was rather pleased with myself for all the prepping I had done ahead of time and how it made my morning so much smoother.
I pondered the idea of preparation as I passed throughout my day.
It occurred to me how many times I have looked back in my life and smiled over the way something I had already experienced had perfectly prepared me for something I could never have anticipated.
In one of my staff meetings today we began talking about the struggles that we walk through in our lives and how amazing it is that the Lord is constantly using things to prepare us. It reminded me of a time in my past when I walked through a very dark season.
It was a season of loss when my one of my closest friends died in an accident.
He was a police officer and it became a very public situation. The news media was involved and the funeral was very large and public. It was a lot for my heart to process through as a you woman.
I was a youth director in Eastern Ky at the time and not very long after that a tragedy struck. The sister of one of my students died in a tragic accident. It rocked our tiny community and was also very public. There was media and the funeral was very large.
As I walked through the fog of that situation, I had an empathy that was different. I understood things that I never would or could have before my own loss.
I remember the day after all the insanity of the funeral when all the dust had settle, all the new crews had left and everything was still, falling on the floor just inside my door, sobbing and crying out gratitude to the Lord for my own experience with loss. I recognized in that moment that nothing could have equipped me to walk through that season better.
We are always in a state of being prepared. What is happening today is not an accident. He is laying the ground work and giving you tools you may not even know you have to take you through things you have yet to encounter.
And trust me, like I learned this morning from my fridge and my closet, the more you embrace the preparation the better equipped you will be to handle any eventuality life throws at you.
As I had lallygagged a bit this morning it was one less thing to have to think about and then locate items that I wanted to wear.
It was also great when I went to pack my lunch that there were items already prepared and all I needed to do was a little bit of assembling. As I exited my house in a fury to make it to my first appointment for the morning I was rather pleased with myself for all the prepping I had done ahead of time and how it made my morning so much smoother.
I pondered the idea of preparation as I passed throughout my day.
It occurred to me how many times I have looked back in my life and smiled over the way something I had already experienced had perfectly prepared me for something I could never have anticipated.
In one of my staff meetings today we began talking about the struggles that we walk through in our lives and how amazing it is that the Lord is constantly using things to prepare us. It reminded me of a time in my past when I walked through a very dark season.
It was a season of loss when my one of my closest friends died in an accident.
He was a police officer and it became a very public situation. The news media was involved and the funeral was very large and public. It was a lot for my heart to process through as a you woman.
I was a youth director in Eastern Ky at the time and not very long after that a tragedy struck. The sister of one of my students died in a tragic accident. It rocked our tiny community and was also very public. There was media and the funeral was very large.
As I walked through the fog of that situation, I had an empathy that was different. I understood things that I never would or could have before my own loss.
I remember the day after all the insanity of the funeral when all the dust had settle, all the new crews had left and everything was still, falling on the floor just inside my door, sobbing and crying out gratitude to the Lord for my own experience with loss. I recognized in that moment that nothing could have equipped me to walk through that season better.
We are always in a state of being prepared. What is happening today is not an accident. He is laying the ground work and giving you tools you may not even know you have to take you through things you have yet to encounter.
And trust me, like I learned this morning from my fridge and my closet, the more you embrace the preparation the better equipped you will be to handle any eventuality life throws at you.
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