the surprise of God

The majesty of life tells of the majesty of our lives.

Following up on my "God is big" post, I keep trying to wrap my head around God as omni: onmipresent, omnipotent, omni-acting, etc.  

"Don't outline good, because you can't outline good enough!" This advice came to me from a dear and wise healer many years ago. And certainly, if we accept God as infinite and as the one Principle or law that governs all things, our own limited views and opinions might not open us up to the horizon-opening things that can and do happen when we trust God.

How does this play out in real life?  Well, when my job ended years ago, the whole family felt very good about moving back to the Midwest. Although I loved my job that entailed travel and working with teams all over the world, I thought that that aspect of my work would never show up in the place where we moved - a rural area of Wisconsin known for its natural beauty and tourism.

But we trusted God "with all our hearts" and didn't limit any possibilities. This was a vigorous trusting, mind you. It involved:

• a larger understanding of God governing every detail of our lives
• an experienced trust that God always takes us to a place that will expand and deepen our understanding of Him
• dismissing doubt, recognizing and eliminating impatience, and yielding my solutions
• rooting out and dropping old stereotyped expectations
• listening, listening, listening and being open, open, open to new ideas
• loving God like I love family, adventure, beauty, and gentleness

And things did open up in ways I couldn't have planned. I've been tallying up our blessings and realized that we now, as a family, have more international involvement than we ever had when we were living in one of the largest cities in the country. We are involved in international youth exchanges and a high school with lots of international students and I continue to grow my practice that includes patients and colleagues from all over the world.

This is amazing to me. And God continues to amaze me. Life is full of horizon-opening things when we trust God with all our hearts.

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Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Psalms 40:5