A tough week

It's been a very long, very difficult week. I am always amazed when God puts His fingerprints on the solution to a problem that has me baffled. This week such a situation arose and there was a lot of pain connected to the solution of that problem. People got involved that didn't need to be and someone was hurt although the hurt was unintentional. Why is it we get in our own way so many times and try to run the show only to find out we didn't have control at all and in the fallout people get hurt and wounded because of our stubbornness or our carnality or rebellion or as in this case because of all three?

Tonight things seem to be more settled than they have all week and I know it's because I am trying hard to listen to God and not "lean on my own understanding." It is when I think I have all these "rights" or I "deserve" something that really isn't God's best that I stumble myself and others. People do need to take risks but they ought to consult with their Heavenly Father before blindly rushing into the sea like some half crazed lemming. It saves a lot of repentance if you only ask for directions and then follow the leading of the Holy Spirit instead of going your own way, making your own plans and then asking God to bless those plans rather than His own.

Katie