Enjoy the Stop

I was stuck at a stop light on the way home and was getting impatient. It had been a long, frustrating day at work, I had a lot on my mind about my future and what I thought I should be doing with my life, and I was hungry. And then this light started taking forever. I was so upset, thinking nothing ever goes right, my life is stuck in one place, I’m never going to move from where I am. Just as I was about to throw my hands up in anger, I chanced to look up and saw this beautiful Texas sky at sunset.

Everything kind of left my mind at that point except how magnificent the view was above what was keeping me from getting to where I wanted to be. At that point, I heard God say, “Don’t let what you think is a stalled situation distract you from seeing the good things I’m working around you.”

I started thinking about the great conversations on faith that I had with my co-workers, the support I’ve gotten for projects that I had no business getting help for, the blessing of finding a caring church, and the peace God has given me in some very difficult times these past few months. I was so caught up with one difficult day, one long stop light, that I forgot about how good God has been to me, and I was reminded that I need to give him thanks in all things, at all times, not just when life is blessed, but even when it feels like I’m stuck.

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. – 1 Thessalonians 5:18