I know you've heard the statement "One step at a time" and I so have I from the time I was a little boy riding my broom stick horse. I always thought that was kind of a dumb statement because I didn't know another way to do it.
Well turns out that statement referred to faith. Martin Luther King said " You don't have to see the entire staircase to take the first step." I also heard from a Bible teacher I respected that "if you can see a process from beginning to end then it doesn't include faith and God isn't a part of it."
What's around the next curve is a mystery and I sometimes wonder if I knew what was there would I have taken that turn. The simple answer is "no" but there is more to it than that.
Everything that you are now is based on every decision you've ever made. Even what looked to be bad ones at first glance have all worked together for, in some cases, wonderful results.
If I look at my first marriage when I was so young and the fear of serving in the military during the Vietnam War, excuse me, conflict, it looks to be a mistake of great proportion. But now some forty years later I see God's plan so clearly.
A daughter was born and from that daughter came three wonderful grandchildren and a good wife for a great son-in-law. And all of their children to come. So I ask myself was my first marriage a mistake? The answer I have come to is "No". Where would the world be without them?
So when you look back on your life give yourself just a little break because you were always making the best decision that you could based on the information you had at the time.
You can't see that next step on the staircase but trust that it's there anyway and take the step.
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