K-LOVE moments

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I started writing a post last night, but for some reason I struggled with it.  It was about transitions.  This seems to be a season of transition for quite a few people I know.  I think that includes yours truly.  I know there is some travel coming my way in the coming months.  I know that part of that travel will take me to a city where I have an acquaintance who is a pastor.  I'm happy about that because while I'm away, I'll have a place to worship.

I'm about 100% sure it's going to be a much different experience than my usual Sunday morning experience but different experiences can sometimes be a good thing.

I couldn't quite find a good way to write about transitions, though.  I then decided to talk about K-LOVE moments.  K-LOVE is a Christian radio network that spans the United States and they have a little promo about K-LOVE moments; they're those moments where you jump into your car or flip on your radio and just the right song is playing at just the right moment.  That happened to me yesterday, but I couldn't find the way to write about that either.

Sometimes it's easy to get discouraged and I was for a bit yesterday.  Things are happening in my life that kind of remind me of having the snow globe shaken up again.  The one thing I so want to happen hasn't yet.  I keep hoping but it's sometimes hard on me.  And for a minute, I had my head down.  Then the right song at the right moment reminded me to keep going; it just hasn't happened yet.

In quiet times, God sometimes helps me by remembering the things He's done and in that thought, He found a way to change my thoughts from looking down to looking up.  When I did, I saw some of the wonderful opportunities coming my way.  Sometimes transitions create opportunities.  Other times, it's little things that help remind us that God is GOOD, even when we think things aren't.

I got blessed by the Toyota dealer yesterday.  I needed to get the tires rotated on the RAV and I thought it was going to need an oil change too.  Turns out that it didn't.  It just needed the tires rotated and Toyota picked up the tab for this first service call since I've had the car.  The oil is synthetic in the RAV and only needs changed every 10,000 miles, not every 5,000.

Tires are still 5,000 though.

That was $80 I didn't have to spend yesterday, and I'm grateful for that.

My trip that I'll be taking will be a good experience.  God worked things out in my favor for that, too.  I'm very grateful.  I have much to be thankful for and I'm thankful and grateful for what God blesses me with.  

Anyway, this morning in my quiet time, I was talking with God and felt like He was asking me what I saw about what was on my heart.  As I was talking to Him about it, I felt like it was time to be quiet and read today's "Our Daily Bread" devotional.  It was about believing what we can't see.  I'm still kinda reeling from that, but it gets better:  The minute I was finished reading that, the thought in my head was to  urgently look at the Bible app verse of the day, which said this:

"Give us this day, our daily bread."

So that's my K-LOVE moment of the day today.  

God's good.  He doesn't leave us alone and let us try to figure out everything on our own.  Some things I can't figure out right now, but I'm good with that too.  It's just enough to have what I need to get through today.

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