The situation in Egypt has gotten me thinking about the times in my life where what I have expected has turned out to be completely different than what I actually got. A recent example is residency. I wasn't planning on going to Dallas, but that is where I have ended up. And it's been a great thing, a blessing in disguise. A second is going to church at the Village. Had I never done either of those things, I never would have met the friends who are now changing my life for the better. Not to say that that wouldn't have happened anywhere, but because I am in Dallas, they are happening here. New friends, new experiences, but perhaps the best part of moving to the Big D is having an old friend become and new, very special one. Would my relationship with K have grown into what it is without the distance, which we loathe (rightly so)? I don't think it would. Clearly, there was/is a plan for us in this city. There was a plan from the beginning. It's easy to think that I am my own destiny-maker, I call the shots and my success is directly dependent on how hard I work to attain my destiny. However, in the cases above, clearly what I have wanted, or thought that I wanted has been contrary to what is best for me. And, looking back on my life, my greatest joys have been preceded by my deepest disappointments. God does not want us to settle for the small joys, the transient joys that this momentary life provides. He desires for us to delight in Him, in the Greatest, most Wonderful, most Awesome God, anything beyond what we can think or dream or imagine. He has created us for Himself so that we are not satisfied apart from Him. Our dreams are too small. Our dreams have us at the center. We are terrible gods. We lament when our dreams are quenched, but we should be rejoicing. The small dreams that we thought we wanted are dying and, I pray, being replaced with the Big Dreams of a life well lived in the service of God. You are where you are for a reason. You are married to whom you are married for a reason. God has Big Plans for you, God has Big Plans for us. K is the most wonderful, caring, compassionate, beautiful, loving, kind, generous, beautiful woman I have ever known. To think that it would've taken 650 miles to bring us together is beyond me, it's beyond my imagination, beyond my dreams. This is the work of a Revolutionary God and His Revolutionary Love. I am so blessed. We are so blessed. I can't wait to marry my best friend, not because I deserve it, but because God staged a Revolution in my dreams, in my heart and in my mind.
To quote Asahel Nettleton, when encouraging the church to pray for revival "Whether you do or not, it is possible there may be one, for Christians in other places have agreed to pray for you'!
Rest comfortable knowing that you are being prayed for by name, and whether you wish it to come or not, Revolution is coming to you.
