God's Timing

Why is it that I am always surprised by God's faithfulness? He is always faithful, yet somehow I forget. He comes through every time just when I most need it. His timing is perfect and flawless.

This morning started out rough for me. I woke up and remembered what was going on in my life and looked at my blue and green swollen ankle and knew it would not be a good day. I knew I needed to deal with some things with God and I wasn't excited about it. I sat down in my big comfy chair and just let myself be sad. I listened to Tenth Avenue North's "By Your Side" for about the millioneth time in the last week and just let it all out. I let myself cry for as long as I needed to. I listened to that song 4 times in a row before I started really beleiving the words. Accepting God's unconditional love is hard for me. I'm working on that.

Well right as I was just about finished with my cry fest my phone rings. It was one of my old roommates, Brittany, who is amazing. She had been reading my blog and felt led to call me. Well, the timing could not have been more perfect. God knew I needed someone to talk to right at that very moment and Brittany was the perfect person. While I was on the phone with her another friend called to check on me and see how I was doing. I called him back and he rescued me from my apartment and we ended up hanging out all afternoon and had some great conversation.

After we hung out I came back to my apartment and journaled for a while. I felt much more at peace than I did when I woke up this morning. I knew that God had provided for me today. I was in awe of how much my attitude had changed since this morning. After journaling I had dinner with another friend and then went to Bible study. Again, God provided. We had a great Bible study and I got to know some new people. I felt that God was moving and providing some new ideas and people for our study. I had been wanting that for awhile.

I ended the evening by watching "So you Think you can Dance" with some awesome people. I just got home and plopped back down on the very chair I started out in this morning and decided to blog. My day ended up completely different than I originally thought it would. What started out as a terrible horrible no good very bad day ended up being a great day. God is so good and I know he will continue to provide for me.