Fingerprints

Last night, I was looking through a book called "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff." It was right beside the couch and a commercial was on, so I picked it up and started to thumb through it. It was actually a really good little book and has some great advice in it. There was a chapter that particularly spoke to me called "Remember that Everything Has God's Fingerprints On It." It talked about how it is easy to find holiness in the beautiful things, like sunrises and the ocean and mountains and babies. But it asked if we could learn to find the holiness in the ugly circumstances and difficult life lessons and tragedies. It stated that when we remember that everything has God's fingerprints on it, that alone makes it special. It said to remember that God created even that difficult person you have to deal with or even that in tough situations you are still blessed in many ways. When we have the desire to find God in everything, it brings peace and we start to see things in a different light and we start to notice things that maybe we didn't before. Just because we don't see the beauty in something doesn't mean it is not there- it just means that we are not looking carefully enough or with a broad enough perspective to see it. I needed to read that and especially now. I have always believed that there was a reason for everything and this just helped to foster that belief. We got a letter today from our neighbors telling us for the hundredth time that they want to buy our 4 acre pasture. The difference between this time and the others is that this time we are probably going to sell it to them. But- it will be for the price we set. We will see how that works out. We lost the contract on our house that we need to sell. But, I think it will help us in the long run because now people who want to see it won't think it is not available because of the "under contract" label. Our website for it has been hopping, so I pray that it will sell really soon. God is in the details and He already knows what is going to happen, so I trust Him with that. He has not let us suffer because of that house and we have learned patience. You never know, maybe it will sell really soon......