formal suit and tie

“Today, i the grocery store parking lot, I watched a man run as fast as he could with a packed shopping cart and then just on the back for a ride. He smiled and chuckled aloud as he rode the cart all the way to his car. He was in his mid-40′s and wearing a formal suit and tie.”

I found this post while reading through makesmethink.com (an alternative to the popular FML site) and this one was my particular favorite.

I feel like this is a real picture of freedom. What does that freedom look like? As we’ve tipped over the midpoint of the semester and now have the end in sight, all the tasks we have to complete begin to pile up in our minds. The temptation? Serious stress! My goal for this time period is to focus on something other than this stress. I want to focus on the perfect grace and sovereignty of God. I can’t let myself stress to the max knowing that I have a God who takes care of everything in his timing.

Unfortunately for my controlling little self, this applies to my internship search as well. But as I told my Bible study girls last night, I think God is calling me into a time of serious trust in Him, a time of not knowing what the plan is exactly, but more deeply knowing Him. I’m beginning to sense the freedom that comes with that trust as He pulls me into a deeper loving relationship. Ah! He’s so good!

My heart is not proud, O LORD,
my eyes are not haughty;
I do not concern myself with great matters
or things too wonderful for me.

But I have stilled and quieted my soul;
like a weaned child with its mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD
both now and forevermore.

Psalm 131

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