Seeking Peace and Acceptance in Life's Unexpected Moments

Have you ever felt like life keeps throwing curveballs at you, disrupting your plans and routines? Join me in this episode of Simple Thoughts, Simple Prayers, as I share my own experience with unexpected events, and the deeper reflections that emerged from embracing these disruptions.

Together, we'll explore the idea of accepting the unexpected and finding comfort in the knowledge that nothing surprises God. So, tune in and discover how to move beyond rest to realms of peace, even through the heaviest storms, knowing that it is well with our souls because He is in control.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

This morning I was reflecting on God and how I needed a. Hmm, okay, sorry about that As a reminder. This is Simple Thoughts, simple Prayers, where I reflect on life and then I tie it to spiritual reality and just offer a simple prayer. This is not really a place for, or Definitely isn't a place for, see, those sound effects are unexpected and they don't fit. Say a lot of B. Right, that's how life is.

Speaker 1: 0:39

I'm late on recording this because I lost a day traveling to a funeral. Okay, i'm sorry about that, that definitely doesn't go there. It just doesn't go there, just like that funeral didn't go where it fit. It didn't neatly fit into my schedule. And then it rained. That's actually incorrect. It monsooned.

Speaker 1: 1:04

I felt like pretty much every scene from the original Jurassic Park, where they're always driving in these jeeps at night and these puddles are everywhere. It's just pouring all this rain And then I arrive at the funeral and just sit there for about an hour, hour and a half, two hours focused on death, and then it's back into the rain. The three hour drive stretched out to over five hours because the weather and because of accidents and just everything, and much in my plan went unfinished for the week because life happened. It may not always be funeral hours away, but won't it always be something? If I were to write out my day minute by minute, how close to write on the plan would my day actually be Like? I cannot even predict my bathroom visits And maybe, when I expect the unexpected, i'll finally find rest.

Speaker 1: 2:10

But even beyond that worldly work around, what if God knows? What if he knows about the funeral? What if he knows about the rain? What about it? He knows about that phone call? What if he knows about that flat tire? What if he knows about that person stopping by? What if he knows? What if he knows even this? When I embrace the unexpected, as his divine expected, i'll go beyond rest to realms of peace. I'll be able to look on through even the heaviest rains and know it is well with my soul because he's in control. God, help me embrace what is beyond my control. Help me to trust that nothing is beyond yours, amen.