When I first started this journey of license renewal, etc I was kicking and screaming. God gave me a promise from Joshua - "I will never leave you or forsake you."
On Monday all my paperwork was done and I was able to turn it in to the state. The whole experience was absolutely perfect (good weather, kids were playing with friends so I didn't have the added stress of hoping they would behave themselves, great parking place, easy to find office, all my entries were right on my form, I didn't need anything else) and I was quite relieved to have it off my back. Now it is in their hands and the waiting game begins.
After I dropped off the papers, I drove down to Cool Springs to get an oil change. Luckily they could do it then and in about 45 minutes. Again, yeah that I didn't have my girls with me because the waiting room was not exactly kid friendly. During that time I took my Bible in to catch up on my daily readings (I'm doing a Read the Bible Through chronologically). I was quite behind from being out of town last week! So anyway, I just chilling out in the waiting room reading along the end of Joshua. The Israelites have finally arrived in the Promised Land and all the tribes have gotten settled in their new lands. Then I read in Joshua 21:45, which I then applied to me, "None of the good promises the LORD has made to the house of [Melissa] failed. Everything was fulfilled."
As I write this, I realize it was easy to be happy with all good stuff God poured down on me on Monday. Would it have been so easy to be happy had it been raining? Storming? I needed more documentation with my papers? I had the girls with me and they were not behaving? I had to park far away? The oil change would take 3 hours? I want to believe that I would, because we are called to praise Jesus even in the storms.
Life is not always easy, in fact most the time it isn't! But the sweet thing we have to hold on to is that even in the storms God is still there, no matter what. I just love that guy!
O:)
Melissa