Crazy Stuff Happens!

The crazy started Sunday morning at 7am as I received word that an extended family member had died. She had been ill and although not unexpected still a shock. Monday morning I got notice that a friend had died unexpectedly from a sudden medical issue. Monday afternoon I broke a belt on my lawn mower that I had replaced a month ago. Tuesday morning I went to walk the dog 5:40ish. It is still dark and I do not take a flashlight with me. We rounded the corner by the road and there was a black pick-up parked in the tree line. It had skidded across the driveway missing the water spigot and culvert and stopping inches from the trees. After a return with a flashlight and some help from my neighbor the truck was empty and had a broken front axle. Following my morning school bus route immediately as I parked and shut the bus off the phone rang and it was my son’s Dr. in Charleston. We had been trying to get an appointment for a week and a half. The voice said, “The doctor can see you this afternoon at 4:30.” I said, “Ok we will be there.” Plans for that day changed and we left for Charleston at 2:15 and returned at 8:30pm. Wednesday evening a wake, Thursday a visitation and wake and Friday morning while walking the dog in the middle of the driveway (the closest tree was 10feet overhead)  I walked into the biggest spider web(in the dark). It was like a hair net on my head. I could not believe it. I had a flashlight in my pocket but I was not expecting a spider web in the open.

That is just stuff, not remarkable per item but piled together in a few days seems incomprehensible. For many it would raise some questions. How could all of that be happening in one week? Why is that happening to me? Maybe even “why would God allow this to happen?” Does he even know this is happening? Valid questions all but consider this possibility that God knows and has purposed these events for His glory and my good?

These are random events or so they seem but what if they are not random at all, I am unable to see the connection to each other or the linear connection to some point in the future? I suggest that connection/endpoint is Jesus. He alone ties all. The purpose of life events is to transform us into the character and quality of Jesus. How we respond to the “crazy” of life shapes and molds our character. The crazy events highlight where work needs to be done and where work has already been completed. Crazy challenges us to stop trying to understand life and live it. It requires us to allow God to plan and direct our lives and the loves of our family in this transformation process. That brings about a new perspective. The perspective that “crazy” is an opportunity to experience God at work; Crazy is not random but purposeful; Crazy has a conclusion for His Glory and my good! That perspective requires me to depend on God the very thing he wanted from the creation of time.

By the way, as of Friday morning the truck is still in the front yard, I never did find the spider that made the massive web and reaching for the keypad to open the door for my office I stuck my hand in another spider web. Crazy!                            

In HIS Service and Yours,

BroG