I found a new way to work, I love finding new ways, anything really to break the routine of monotony that we get stuck in. I love my new drive, not only is it 6 miles shorter it’s all country roads. I pass an equestrian ranch that I would move into tomorrow if they invited me, a dairy farm, a field full of goats, some lakes and barns and lots and lots of trees…it great!
This morning though I’m driving along and the road was blocked off, apparently the bridge was out and we we’re all sent on a detour. Normally I might have been frustrated, especially because I didn’t know exactly where the detour would take me, and I only have a quarter of a tank of gas, and I have a lot to do at work today and had hoped I’d get there early. But this morning, I had just read Psalm 51…
Verse 17 says that the sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, broken with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent. (that’s my paraphrase from an amplified version) anyway, to me it’s all about surrender. I think being humble before God is about yielding to what you think might be best and letting God lead you, kind of like this detour in my road this morning.
So, I opened my sunroof, cranked up my music and this song came on- “What can I do but thank you, what can I do but give my life to you, Hallelujah, What can I do but praise you, every day with everything I do Hallelujah, Hallelujah!” I just laughed and sang all the way to work. Especially when the detour got me so stuck in traffic, what could I do, right- totally stuck and potentially lost and running out of gas! So I just laughed and sang praises to God, I wish all life’s detours were that easy, I’ll have to tuck this morning lesson away in my heart.
