Parallel universe

Every so often I catch myself wondering about the whole grand scheme of faith. I stand in an airport, for example watching important people in business suits, briefcase clutched to their sides as they pause at an espresso bar before scurging off to another concourse. Do any of them ever think about God? I wonder

CALL IT GOOD?

Can we really know whether to label life's circumstances as good or bad?

For instance, your car breaks down right before you are to take a family road trip. When you take the car to the garage, the mechanic say, " Good thing you didnt take this out on the road. It could have caught on fire." It that bad because of the inconvenience, or good because of God's protection?

Or perhaps your child decides to pursue interests that arent all that interesting to you. you wanted her to play basketball and do athletics in secondary school. but she wanted to sing and play musical instruments for the crowd.You feel frustrated but she excels and ends up with a music scholarship. Is that bad because your dreams werent fulfilled, or good because God directed her in ways you could not have predicted? Sometimes its hard to see how God is working. His mysteries dont't always reveal their secrets to us, and our journey is often redirected by uncontrolable detours. Perhaps God is showing us a better route. The circumstances in our lives, seem random and unplanned but someday we'll surely see, the order of God's hand. ;)

xoxo Eliza