Everything happens for a reason.
It's a mantra of sorts that I hear all the time and I tend to agree with. This weekend I had, what I guess you could call an epiphany or maybe just a reaffirmation of what I already knew. At the DTC on Saturday night, Dan was teaching on the goodness of God and that because God is good, everything that comes from Him is good...even though it may be considered bad by the world's standards. It made me think back on my life and the things that have happened that weren't exactly the greatest, whether by my own doing or not...things you might say I regret: not marching my final two years of drum corps; majoring in business management seeing as how I'm not using it at all; moving to Chicago; staying at the church in Chicago for 5 years; not taking a job in Phoenix that I was all but offered. I look at these things and can talk for hours about the negative aspects of each...why I regret each thing.
But what I realized this weekend was that, had one thing been different in any of the situations I listed, I would not be where I'm at today and it's probably one of the best places I've ever been in my life. God has taken so much of what was hindering me away so that all I have left to do is what I've neglected to do for so long...to seek Him wholeheartedly and come to know God for who He really is, not just the watered down, pretty version that I've clung to for almost 27 years of my life.
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. ~Romans 8:28
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your friend Lisa says: Wow--- it kind of makes me sad to see that you wrote moving to Chicago was a regret. I understand you have your reasons and all, but I know there's alot of people here who, had you NOT been here, THEIR lives would not have been effected the way they had. I'm glad you were able to have your eyes opened (or are in the process of having them opened) and realize that we are put through certain things -not just so WE ourselves will benefit or learn, but perhaps we were put in certain situations because our talents, skills, whatever you want to call them, were specifically needed to fulfill a purpose in someone else's life. :)
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