I tend to bullshit myself when I’m stopped at a red light or a train crossing. To ease my impatience, I tell myself that God is slowing me down from danger ahead.
The delay is keeping me out of an intersection up the road that an assclown could smash into me at. This train has kept me from hitting a deer crossing the road. By the time I drive through the forest preserve, that deer will be gone. Thanks to this fucking freight train.
Now when it’s really all said and done…
God doesn’t control the stop lights and he doesn’t plot the Union Pacific’s rail schedule. Just like he doesn’t create devastating weather conditions and stock market crashes.
I’m a firm believer that everything that happens to us is set in stone already. Is it God’s will?
Maybe, but I doubt it.
God has more important things than your flooded basement or your stock portfolio.
We’ve all seen the bumper sticker and we’ve all experienced it at one time or another….
…shit happens
Some people can handle it and some cannot.
Most of the stupid shit that happens to us is because of our dumb decisions. I’ve got a PHD in Dumbfuckingness.
Most of the good things happen to us because of dumb luck or being at the right place at the right time.
…and when it’s all said and done.
You put yourself in that position, not God. The only involvement God has is through your faith.
It is your faith in God that has given you faith in yourself.
Faith brings us the good and gets us through the bad.
So, as you reread today’s quote…
The God directing and protecting us mumble jumble is all about faith…
….it was the late George Michael that told us, “Because I've got to have faith
Faith
Faith
I've got to have faith
Faith
Faith!”
And he ended up dying on Christmas, so it’s gotta be true.
Today is the first day of spring. We made it through another winter. Go make it a great Thursday. Fill today with faith in yourself.
