cotton candy in the rearview...

Living almost an hour away from your work leaves alot of time for listening to music, for prayer, for...thinking. Alot of thinking and reflecting and drinking coffee. Yesterday was no exception. After a trying weekend, and rough Monday, I was in an unusually positive mood for a Tuesday. Thinking back to the trouble I had with my truck the past week, I was reflecting on just what I could learn and how I could see God working through it all. Situations could have been worse, as I was driving it, and my parents had come in for the weekend, so we had extra hands and wheels. I was reflecting on how it all seemed to work out in the end, and (you were right mom and dad) how something that seemed so bad at the time, seemed so petty now. It just so happened that it was sunrise as well. And due to me living east of my work, to watch the sunrise, I have to look in the rearview mirror. Yesterday's sky was unbelievable. Pinks, blues, and oranges splashed the morning sky, and to me it looked like God had thrown cotton candy all over the earth. Now ahead, it was pitch black, and kind of foggy. And ahead was a long 10 hour day. My mind was racing with thoughts of everything that could go wrong, and probably would, that day.  I found myself repeatedly looking back at the sunrise. It was much more inviting. It was visible. It was compelling. Ahead, the dark road seemed a little creepy as I wound down the mountain roads. Then everything started to make sense. This is what God was teaching me. I was looking in the rearview mirror of my life for direction, for happiness. But what is behind us is behind us. It is there for us to just reflect on. We cant see down the road ahead, but He wants us to pursue Him with everything we have. And just like employment, all we have to do is serve, be faithful, and give it all we have. Even though we may be going down roads in total darkness, when all is said and done, we'll look back and it will be all blue skies and cotton candy...