TRUST GOD AND GET OUT OF HIS WAY

My dream: There is a terrible drought. I am walking alone in the fields of a once-fertile farm. There are only dead cornstalks, wasted trees and dry creek beds around me.

I ask God to make it all better...in whatever way he chooses.

I immediately stumble on an old, dried-up cow patty. I know it was not there a minute ago, and now it is right in my path. I am not happy because in my stumble, I step on the patty which is fresh beneath the crust.

I feel certain God is mocking me...I ask for help and even leave how he brings the help entirely up to him. I'm saying "Thy will, not mine, be done," and I'm getting fresh cow manure?

I walk on, looking for water or some living thing...nada. I give up. I know I am going to die of either starvation or thirst whichever comes first, and I don't care. I can't even weep. I sit down and apparently doze off because I'm awakened by a light rain. I look back the way I'd come.

There are little sprouts of wheat and corn and living things I can't even identify, including flowers, growing in my footsteps. And as I look they spring fully mature, ready for harvest.

I realize the seeds of all these growing things had stuck to my foot.  The one that had stepped in the dried-up cow patty. The patty that hadn't been there until I asked God for help in whatever way he chose to bring it.

We may not like what it looks like on arrival, but once we learn to trust God and get out of his way,
voila! God's perfect will realized.

Thank you.