There has been a lot going
on lately for our family. My husband finished up the school year a huge
achievement for our whole family. Now though as he enters the final stretch of engineering school and is looking for an internship and a job a lot is up in the air we aren't
sure what the next step is or where it will lead. This kind of thing is so hard
for me I need a plan I need to know what's coming next. To be honest this is
when faith gets hard for me. Is there really a plan? Does G-d really see us
down here?
So today was a really
normal day just before dinner I ran out to run some errands. I needed to run to
Whole Foods and I had pick up some leftover couscous from a BBQ we had at our
synagogue last Sunday from our Rabbi's
wife at their house. I was running behind as always. Isn't that the way it is
for most of us? Always behind never anywhere on time or at least it seems that
way. I had said I'd be by at 5:30 for the leftovers well at 5:50 I went sprinting
up to the door. She came to the door and said "Oh I'm so sorry the
leftovers aren't here they are at Chabad I am so sorry I wasn't clear about
that". For those of you who don't know we live just around the corner from
Chabad so I could have picked up the leftovers on my way to Whole Foods if I'd
known they were there. This was no big deal I just stopped by on my way home
instead. As I pulled out from the Chabad to head home couscous in the passenger
seat an elderly lady flagged me down from her car. She was so upset I was
really worried she was having a health problem and needed an ambulance or
something. I rolled down my window and said "Yes ma’am! Do you need some
help?" She frantically told me she had been lost for nearly and hour and
desperately needed help to find her way. She asked me if I could help her to
find the street she was looking for. She said she had asked several people and
no one knew the street. I said I'd do my best. I asked her what street she was
looking for? She said, "It's called Golden Oak do you know it?" I
smiled and said "Yes ma’am, I know it follow me I'll take you there.”
After I led her to Golden
Oak I turned around to head home back up the street as I passed her car she
rolled her window down and said "Thank you so much I don't know if I would
have ever found my way without your help" "No problem ma’am, no
problem at all" I said. What she didn't realize was I knew where
Golden Oak was because it was the street I grew up on and that I just happened
to be there to help her at that time because I was running behind and went to
the "wrong" place first. You see I was supposed to be there for her
in that place at that time. She felt lost and I felt behind and silly for going
to the wrong place first. G-d knew right where we both were and that we needed
each other’s help. She needed me to find her way and I needed to be there to
help her so G-d could remind me that he orchestrates all my steps.
Even though I don't know what G-d has planned next for our family or
where we will be I have stopped worrying about it because G-d hasn't lost track
off us He knows right where we are and has a great plan for what's next.
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