Divine Doings

     Oh the depths of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
     How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! 

   Romans 11:33

     It is easy to believe that God is omniscient because it is a lofty sounding, theological word, remote from our every day lives. What is hard for us to believe in the daily grind of life, is that God knows what He is doing. The problem is, daily life feels like a series of random choices and events. My trips to Boise affirm that it is not. From my perspective, the timing of this trip was determined by my husband and the needs of the airplane. From my Father's perspective, the trip was a carefully timed event. For one thing, on the best of years, under the best of circumstances, I need to get out of Dodge (Kalispell version) in the winter. I suffer from seasonal affective disorder, current fancy name for the winter blues. I am ready to leave Kalispell 1/2/every year. Since I had a knee replacement mid-December, this January was neither the best of years, nor the best of circumstances. Although the weather on our first two weeks Boise bound was about the same as back home, (record setting cold for Boise) phase two of the trip has been mostly sunny, and it is always less humid here. For that reason alone, my knees have been happier.
     A more important aspect of divine doings is that while staying at the hotel, without even my marginal attempts at housework and errands, I have lots of time to exercise and state of the art equipment with which to do it. I was exercising at home, but with the machines here I can measure my progress. I have been exercising two to three hours a day. That, and picking where to go for dinner, are my only responsibilities. Only God could intersect the sale and C-check of a jet with the needs of His winter suffering, knee rehabbing daughter. There is nothing random about the timing or events in the life of a Christian, regardless of how it looks from our perspective. From where I sit, God looks wise and loving and perfect, and the best exercise I can do is to praise Him.