The little things in life...
this morning, as i was going about with getting ready for school, i realised that, yet again, i was going to be late. Thursdays are supposed to be the one day of the week that i can get to school early, as its mums day off, so she can drive me. but, before i can leave, i have to first wait for my brother to get ready, and get taken to school, then for mum to come back home, and get ready herself...THEN i can leave...
but of course, yet again, my brother was taking forever to get ready.
then, when mum got home, i looked at the clock, 8:00. "okay mum, you nearly ready?"
"no. nowhere near it"
*sigh*
so i offer to do some stuff for her, while i wait around for 15 minutes, while she gets ready. Quater past 8 and im starting to get annoyed. my bus would normally be getting to my stop by now.
twenty past eight. "i could have been at school already!"
but, through my annoyance, i remembered an email i received a while ago.
This email was about how, even the little annoying things in life, like being late for school, all have a reason. and a perfectly good one too.
This email, was a story about exactly why some survivors of 11/11 (september 11) weren't killed when the incident occured.
And these stories were some of the most amazing stories I had ever read.
one man survived because his son had started kindergarten that morning.
One, because he had put on a new pair of shoes that morning.
But, on his way to work, developed a blister, so stopped to buy a bandaid.
But the one that i found most amazing was the man who survived because it had been his turn to bring donuts.
So, next time you're stuck at the traffic lights, missed the bus, or any one of the little things in your life that annoy you, just think, that, this is exactly where god wants you to be, right here, right now. No matter how annoying it may seem at the time.
Because, it could mean the difference between life, and death.