Have you ever waited for something exciting to come into your life?

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Have you ever waited for something exciting to come into your life?

I find myself there. Waiting for a page or two to turn.

Sometimes I feel like my life, the routine of going to school and studying, gets rather boring. I find myself waiting for the chapter of wild adventures to start. It is almost as if I'm waiting for my lottery ticket to arrive and life to be super awesome somehow. I find myself thinking about the deserts of Africa or the villages of India, exploring the vastness of what seems like another universe. I imagine treating diseases and setting up clinics and preaching the gospel to a people whose language I have never known. I think about my future husband, who should have been a supermodel but decided instead to share the gospel with the world. (KIDDING! ..kinda) ..My mother always did say I had a vivid imagination.

I think it's healthy to want to go somewhere in life. Its important to have goals and dreams. But I think there is a lesson in being content in where God placed you and me, today. Right this second. Be it in the 4th floor student lounge (as I am) or at work or at home in your pajamas, God planned and penned this day in your lives. This hour. And He precisely placed you where you are. Paul talks about being content in Philippians. Listen to what he says in 4:12-13 -- I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.  The secret -- I can do all this through him who gives me strength. Content means to know that wherever you find yourself, you are there because God hand picked you and placed you there. Right there, whether that may be in the center of pain and trials, or right square in the middle of boredom. Or maybe even joy. Wherever, it was the great Almighty God who put you and I where we sit today. And today, you and I can face the mundane, the hard, the scary, the painful, the happy moments in our lives because God will strengthen us through this chapter, and every chapter of our lives.

I'm still waiting though for that supermodel turned pastor to come my way. If you see him around, point him my way. KIDDING! ..kinda.. ;)

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