I have been struggling with my gift of creativity when it comes to souvenirs. I didn’t want to bring home scarves or jewelry. I wanted something meaningful, and I’ll be honest, I wanted it to be really creative. I forget sometimes how creative God is. He is the one who created the entire universe and we are still finding wonder after wonder.
I was strolling through the market today and was looking at scarves and jewelry; even though that was not what I wanted to buy, I bought them anyway. There is grace for that though. 🙂 God didn’t give up when I did. Walking back from the market, we stopped and I just started talking about something. And all of a sudden I said, “Yeah, I want to buy a watch from each country and leave it on the time zone we are in now.” – Wait, what? I have never had that thought before that moment, and I looked over my shoulder and there was a watch store. Ok God, thank you. You are super creative. I can’t take any credit for this.
It doesn’t stop there. I got back to my room and started journaling about what had just happened. And I don’t really know how to journal or what to say when I journal, so I just start to write words and string them together to form sentences. This morning I was asking God to mold my mind, heart, speech, and actions to be more like Him. He has been teaching me how to trust Him with every aspect of my life; even things I consider to be strengths! So, I start to write again. And I am writing about His timing. When I look at a watch or ask for the time, I am usually waiting for something to do and I need to know when to do it. When I am on God’s time, I have to look to Him to know when I need to do something. Trusting that He always has the time and knows exactly when I need to be somewhere. And also trusting that I know His voice and I will know when to go. Watches from each country represent His timing in my life this year. Keeping them on their respective time zones represent that God is still there keeping time even though my time there has come and gone. I will have no regrets if I look to Him for the time.
Oh yeah, and God totally cares about souvenirs 🙂
