Last night Gideon woke up just as we were getting ready for bed. I'd just taken out my contacts and Trevor was holding Gideon and walking around our bedroom with him when a spider ran across the floor. Since Trevor had Gideon, I grabbed a shoe from the closet and killed it. Now, just some background, I'm pretty well blind without glasses or contacts. On the optometrist scale of 0-8, 8 being the worst your eyes can get, one of mine is well past 4. Anyway, so after I smashed what really looked like more of a small shadow to me, I grabbed my glasses and went to go throw the spider away. Now that I could actually see, this spider was HUGE!!!! I'm not typically scared of spiders, but this was like a June bug with spider legs! I actually made Trevor get rid of it because now that I could see I was afraid. Ironic that the live spider didn't bother me at all, but dead...
So, using this as a parable, I'm glad sometimes we have to trust God and blindly follow where he leads. If we could always see the plan we might question more and run in cowardice knowing the big spiders that our in our future. It's always easier to look back at our past and be proud of the obstacles we've overcome and just trust that God will help us in the future too.
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