Paying Attention to God

          This past week was full of God working in my life and me paying attention to Him. It is really strange how God can align His things with mine or maybe I'm just doing it the other way around. It just seemed to fit this week. God and His timing. It is the small things that God does actually start you out with to see and pay attention to and then He will go onto the bigger things. Like with me this week, it was with the Bible study, weather, a gift and a certain day. It was really strange. I couldn't get things off my mind. Everything was out of the way that they were suppose to be or usually are.
           I will start telling you about the Bible study because that is when everything came back to me. Actually it all started around Christmas but I forgot about it for a month and a half and after that it came back to me because I had to do it. It wasn't Christmas that God wanted me to do this thing but this past Saturday. Anyways, back to the Bible study first. The study was on Crisis of belief. I know that might kind of seem funny with this situation but it was a choice I had to make even if it was just a small one. I could have had a big impact on that person's life and I would never know. I couldn't stop thinking about the person at all this week. Everything I read and was taught this work through the study I could connect somehow to the person and job.
           It was like God telling me that I had a choice to make right now and that it was a small crisis of belief. It was God testing me to see if I could trust Him or that is how I looked at it. This action took like a month to get read for the certain day. It had two parts and I had to wait on both of them that is why it took so long. I will admit I had been praying a few days before that this choice would change the heart of the person or at least make an impact on the person somehow like getting deeper with God or knowing that I was there once again. I don't need to get anything back but it was just a nice thing to do. I was a little scared the person would either get mad at me or things would go wrong so that is another reason I prayed for the person and choice. I mailed the gift two days before I wanted it to get to the person. Mind you this is all being planned without knowing the weather in advance and that was not on my mind.
           Here I was planning the gift, like I said, a month and a half in advance and this person wanted to do something with friends or the certain day but the person asked only a week in advance if anyone had any ideas. Well, nothing happened on that certain day because the weather was rainy, ice, and snowy all in one day. Mind you in March too. It did all of that in the same day switching off and on. The person I sent the gift to didn't have a big party or get together but did something that the person loved to do by their self. I didn't think much of it until I was praying last night and asked a friend this question: "Do you think that God could have sent the weather so the person could be by self?" "Could it oddly be an answer to my prayer?" If you are reading this and was in that weather this weekend, don't blame me. Often time alone is when we really think about things and ourselves or at least I do.
          Things just lined up here too well to think that something big and strong didn't have in either of our lives. I'm not saying that anything did but I'm hoping and praying something did even if it is very small. I might never know if that day or those prayers have been answer but I can keep on believing they did. With everything going on, I was busy too which is good for me and is an answer to prayer too so I didn't sit around worrying about that gift and the person. I was actually peaceful and if you knew the whole story and more details, you would know how big of a deal that was for me. I was peaceful not just this weekend but all week with mailing it and ordering it and everything that went into it. I was a little nervous at first when it all started but I prayed for peace and God's direction and I felt like He gave me just what I needed to do.
            All this to say: "Once we know how to pay attention to God and actually do so, He can really change our outlook on life, one small thing at a time." I hope this all makes sense. It is kind of hard to write something like this when you can't write the names of the people or things. I don't want to embarrass them at all or myself on here so that is why I don't. I want people to see that God can really work in your life still today if you just get to where you can love Him deeply and believe in  (have Faith) in Him.