Where are my shoes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last Friday Kristen and I were making our way up to Ozark, Alabama. For those of you who don't know where that is, it is two hours South of Montgomery, AL. We were going up there to interview for a youth position. We got the job! God is good all the time!!!! There is so much that has went in the past 4-5 days I cannot even write about all of it.

So my thought for today comes from the first few moments of our trip. Before I picked Kristen up from her school I was dropping my car off and our Pastor's house so it would be safe for the weekend. It actually got wrote on in permanent marker come to find out! lol. Anyway as we pulled up I was greeted by my friend JoJo haha aka Kristin and Pastor sheri who was not feeling good. I was running around my car trying to find shoes and clothes that I needed to transfer to another car. Pastor sheri asked if she could pray and I said,"just one second please." knowing she wasn't feeling up to par I gave up trying to find my dress shoes.

Prayers started to be sent up Heavenward and we were asking God for big things in the days to come. As we prayed my mind was trying to think of where these dress shoes were. I knew I had them in my car. We finished praying and I thought of one last place to look. So I popped the trunk and opened the cooler that was in my car. There they were, my nice shinny black dress shoes. I yelled out, "Who the heck puts shoes in a cooler!" The women laughed at me for a second and then we took off. To go pick Kristen up.

The shoes were in the cooler because I had put them there when packing up my dorm room trying to use every bit of space I could.

Sometimes we pack life to full, so full in fact that we can't remember where God is, or where our shoes are.

I think the example set before us in how to order the fullness of everyday life is found in Mark.

And early in the morning, while it was still dark, He arose and went out and departed to a lonely place, and was praying there. ( Mark 1:35)

Prayer is nonnegotiable.It centers our lives on what is important, that is God!
We must withdraw ourselves from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, in order to find ourselves and to find God.

If we miss these things we will not be able to find our shoes, or worse yet we will not be able to find God.

May His face shine upon you.