Thursday Thoughts on My Faith

This has been a rough week. I heard a few weeks ago (and I cannot for the life of me remember where) an analogy about how we see things. As we are going through life, it is like driving down a road. We can only see what is in front of us, we don't see what is around the corner, what is over the next hill. Just what is in front of us. God, on the other hand, looks down at the road like it is a map. He sees every twist and turn, every obstacle in the way, bad weather, speed bump. He gets the broad picture and that is really comforting to me.
When husband and I were picking what day we wanted to get married (really what day I wanted) I originally picked May 27th. I really liked the sound of that. But then my mom pointed out it was Memorial Weekend and I changed it to the 20th. Who knew, 14 years later we would have to put our dog to sleep on May 27th. I never would have guessed that. But imagine how hard it would be to have that be a reminder every anniversary. But God knew. He saw way ahead of time. That might be a stretch for some of you. But here's the other thing. We are going camping this weekend. We have planned it since last September. My mom was going to come and housesit/dogsit for us. 2 days before we leave, we have to make this decision. Now I have a three day weekend and a chance to be away from my house. The house that seems so empty and quiet without her. God saw this bump in the road way ahead of time and covered it, covered us. He always provides for us, even when we don't know it or see the impact of it right away. That is a huge comfort to me.