the simplicity in being where you are

and knowing that is precisely where you are supposed to be.

I have this thing with God. I'm not sure if it's a one-sided deal. But I would like to say Him and I are on the same page with this one.

Do you ever get that calming sense when you know at that given moment and time, you are where you're called to be.  It could even be as simple as taking a walk with a friend and you just know this conversation is supposed to happen. Or big, like the two missionaries that run the house I'm staying at. For quite sometime they were trying to get back to South Africa... one thing lead to another and they couldn't get back. But when it came time to get their flights, they were on standby and they both were on different lists. The wife was toward the beginning and the husband was far down the list. The lady told the couple that it would take a miracle for him to be on the same flight as her.  Down to the T-- they both were on the same flight, sitting next to each other in business class. I would say there is no doubt there had to have been a sense of "Okay, I'm supposed to be here."

For me, I often find it in the simplistic of acts but the simplicity makes my heart so full and this exceeding joy overcomes.

A couple of years ago, I was sitting in Zimbabwe in pitch black. Quite eerie looking to your left and right and not being able to see a thing. But then I looked up. Stars, more than I could imagine counting. Even if I tried I would be into numbers that I have no idea what they are. I had never seen such a sight and just remember feeling chills from my head all the way to my toes. I was having one of those moments with God where he had been wanting me for a while. I was out there for a couple of hours. Then I saw a shooting star and knew I was supposed to be in that place and no where else.

Shooting stars have always been my vice of where I'm supposed to be. And it may be more that when I see them, it typically  means my attention is on just one thing and not a million other things as usual. I can focus on that one thing and so it starts from there. Revelation.

On my drive to Nelspruit, I was sitting, watching the lines on the road, fighting my hair from looking like a lion. The wind won. But as I'm looking, I see something and look all around and I see beauty. I had every desire to just jump out of the car and dance and let the sun hit my face, dance in the rain and just be moved by God. I always have the desires when I can't execute them.

Oh well.

But as I'm having this vision and my heart getting so excited and my blood is pumping. Then I see it.

a rainbow. a gorgeous rainbow and I couldn't help my smile and get excited.  This is where I am.

       >>  Embrace it.  <<

As I'm having all of these thoughts, this music seems to drive me to feel most passionate about this feeling and some others. enjoy.

* on a wholly separate note, I'm beginning to wonder if all this waiting has been so I would come to the point and finish a simple email. We'll see how it all pans out.