Looking outside the box

 

I was thinking to myself on May 6, 2017 that there are times when what we are comfortable with and what we want in life is what’s best for us. Yet other times - not as much.  If a child comes to you and asks for candy for supper, I don’t think it’s a great idea to only have that as their meal.  On the other hand, if you give the candy as a dessert after they ate their meal, then that seems more reasonable.

I remember how stunning my best friend looked in her dress on her wedding day.  It made me want to look at dresses online for down the road.  It was fun looking at the different wedding dresses, thinking I might wear one of those someday.  There was no pressure then as I wasn’t dating anyone.  Four years later after my best friend got married, I found my future hubby.

I actually started looking for a wedding dresses before, my boyfriend at the time, proposed.  I knew he was the one, so I decided to start looking for a dress in case it took a long time for me to find the right one.  When I went to the wedding store, I never imagined that I would find my wedding dress the first time I went shopping for it. 

I told myself what I wanted and what I didn’t want.  I knew that I didn’t want a long train and I didn’t want to have a strapless dress.  I went through the store and picked out the dresses I liked.  Two of them I took off the sales rack, which were final sale.  The rest of the dresses had to be measured to your size and then ordered.

With my mom accompanying me, it felt so surreal knowing that I’d be getting married sometime in the future.  I found out that after I tried all the dresses on, one of them was a strapless dress.  I narrowed it down to my top three and tried them on again.  I then got my mom’s opinion on which one she liked best.  It turned out that her favourite, was also my favourite. 

The funny thing is that I ended up choosing the type of dress that I told myself I didn’t want in the first place.  It was a strapless dress with a long train.  To me it’s funny how God can work that way.  He’ll let us choose what we want, but He’ll also give us His choice to choose from.  I know for sure His choice was better.  The other pretty awesome thing is that the dress I chose was the only dress that fit me perfectly, as all the rest of the wedding dresses I tried on were too big.

Some people might have thought I shouldn’t have chosen a dress so soon when a better dress could still be out there.  But I knew deep down there wasn’t a better dress for me then the one I bought, and on the plus side it was majorly on sale!  I think God puts it in our hearts when to think outside the box on some decisions.  If I had gone with the style of dress I wanted originally, I know I wouldn’t have found a dress as nice as the one I got.  Oh, in case you were wondering, my husband proposed a month after I bought my wedding dress.

I think it’s alright to have in mind what you want when you go to make a decision, but don’t get stuck in that direction when you see something better in life.  Keeping yourself open to other possibilities makes life more exciting.

Patricia   <3   :)

Romans 12:2   Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

 

Here’s a song about when you lose someone and you don’t expect the pain to last, and then you feel so numb because of it.  Almost feeling like if you believe they are still alive then they will walk through the door.  That God is always there for you to catch you when you fall and that God is our true hero.  That while you are waiting to meet a loved one again, that it seems God needs another angel from your life.  That there’s a reason why people go sooner, and to not question why, as God knows what’s best.

 

“Jealous Of The Angel”  by Donna Taggart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY_zvQsCf54&list=PL3whQX319DaB37iB8NZpJe206iSdpe3kc&index=189