Taking the Little Things for Granted

    "Sometimes we take the little things for granted when really they are a blessing in disguise. It makes you fight for something or someone even harder when the little blessing makes you see the bigger blessing they have been trying to get to all along. It helps you understand and love the same thing that another person is fighting for and you will go right alone beside them."

      Ok, enough with my own quotes but this week I really felt that way with a friend of mine. God put me at that same place by His own appointment and my eyes were open for my friend. I have seen and heard things from my friend about how they wish they were doing something else. Their passion but yet they are sitting behind a desk.
       Don't get me wrong everyone I know has as some kind of desk job and that is great if that is the job God made you for. It hurts, though, to see someone behind a desk that should be doing something they like and bigger. Not only did it open my eyes to my friend's life but it also opened my eyes to my own life in a lot of ways especially with how things are going this week.
        It is like God saying to the both of us, "Hold on, I got something better for you but you need this thing to make it there." You need the place or the advertisement or so on. When I say little things, I mean the things that seem like everyday things. I went into the store that my friend was working at without even knowing they worked there. I'll admit I have heard rumors that lead up to an assumption but I never sat on it. I went there for a reason. I had a question to ask one of the employees there.
        When I left the place with the things I bought, I felt like God saying, "You really need to pray for your friend." It was pushing on my heart really bad all night afterwards. I also felt like I needed to encourage that friend so I wrote an email. I was going to pray for my friend before but it wasn't as pushy as it felt after going into the store. I was going and needed to pray for my friend because my friend had big things going on the next few days after. Things that would turn the business around and into a bigger business then it is now.
        I felt a connection right then and there because I was going through the same thing or close to the same thing. If I have to be honest, it made me feel depressed in a good way, like keep going and keep talking, for my friend and I. I had big things coming up to so it also made me think about who I really am and where I want my life to go. It made me push and pray harder not just for my friend but for me too. It is strange when God put two people on the same wavelength and it is even stranger when those people, who haven't seen each other in years, see each other before events that could change their lives even if it is changing their lives a little bit.
         It is hard to explain the exact feelings I felt that day but I know it was an appointment made by God and my attitude did change, if not a lot then at least a little bit. This is a strange way to put it but I felt like an angel watching over people even if it was certain people like my friend. I felt like I could really make a change that day and time. Give my friend the energy to keep going and not give up on the God-given dream they have worked so hard for all these years. To be an angel to people, you just have to know about them, even if it is a little bit and be usable to God in any way He wants you to be usable.
          I was out and about that day just shopping and asking questions but God had a lot more in store for me then I ever planned. He had me doing one of my favorite things and that was learning about people. I believe things are going to turn out bigger and better because I listened to God at that moment in time.

Challenge: Do NOT take the little God appointments (things) for granted. They could changes lives for the better.