Being Content

Detailed-Oriented

One of my friends asks prospective employees where they keep their shoes. Basically she’s looking for an answer that is something other than “I just leave them wherever I last took them off.” The reason for this is that the jobs she’s hiring for usually require a high level of organization. She needs people who are detailed-oriented, not individuals who are too busy looking towards the next thing that they forget about the things that are happening now.

Sometimes, I tend to think of God as those people who kick off their shoes in the hallway. I trust Him for the big picture stuff, but neglect to remember that He’s focused on the details too. He’s arranging timelines, conversations and moments so that His will can be brought about. He’s numbered the hairs of our heads, so of course He cares about our daily struggles and fears. His eye is on us, not just for the long-term, but for each and every minute as well.

It’s comfort to serve this God – the One who holds my future and who holds my hand. Because no matter what I fear – the worries of today or the uncertainty of tomorrow – He’s taking care of all the details.

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Being Content Purpose

Connect the Dots

It’s amazing the games that amuse us in childhood.

Starting with peek-a-boo and moving up to duck-duck-goose, seemingly simple (and sometimes silly) tasks can keep us occupy for hours.

One such activity is the game of the connect the dots. You’re given a sheet of paper with a smatter of numbered dots and the idea is to, in numerical order, draw lines between each point. When you are done, you’re greeted with a completed picture;  a picture that you probably couldn’t see at each point along the way.

Life is a lot like that, except, somehow, as we get older, we take less joy in each step, and want focus more on the final outcome. We concentrate on the end, and not the in-betweens. But rarely does God tell us that picture that He is painting with our lives. Rarely does He reveal what He’s using us to accomplish or the trajectory that He send us on. Instead, He asks us to go to the next point – to do the next right thing as someone once told me. And we trust, that in His time, we’ll see what He see – the beautiful picture that He’s using our lives to draw. We’ll see where each step lead, why each point was necessary, and the lessons He taught us in the in-betweens.

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