Future....Unknown

Everything has already been decided. It was known long ago what each person would be. So there's no use arguing with God about your destiny. ~ Ecclesiastes 6:10 (NLT)

I had walked on a very tough battle on fighting for my right to remain as a regular status employee at my workplace. But with corruption everywhere, where else could I seek help? I decided to close this year 2012, choosing to move on and accept what had happened. Determined to find out what new road would open for me. Despite the difficulty, it was God’s Word that gave me strength. It was His true promises that reassured me time and time again that He would always be my Refuge in any storms in my life. 

No! I wouldn’t let that storm create havoc and rob my heart of other wonderful things God has given me. As the last page of this year came this morning, my heart would always be filled with gratitude for all the things that happened in 2012. 

Days apart in this month, my husband and I celebrated our 21^st Anniversary and our child welcomed a new stage of becoming an adult. We decided to celebrate in a favorite barbeque restaurant and splurge a little as we didn’t really plan any get-away on this vacation. We were just contented most of the time, thankful for the times whenever the three of us were always together. Away from the busyness of work and school matters.

As my son carefully drove his car, more rain came down on the road we were traveling on. The clouds above us became darker and darker. We forgot to bring an umbrella and usually, we would have one anyway in the cars we were driving. My son didn’t have one! Finding one remaining parking spot, no one dared to venture out as a heavy downpour steadily came, mixed with a slight hail. We didn’t let that spoil our moods. We decided to turn around and just eat in a different restaurant. Toward the favorite burger place nearby. We didn’t want to get wet!

Parking right in front of the joint, we were all surprised to see how very little the crowd was inside when usually, the line would have formed in miles by that hour. I didn’t even need to reserve a table while my boys would order for me. I ordered first, my son, then my husband. In that order, we got how we wanted our burgers made! 

Oh how we all laughed, eluding being dampened by the rain!!! Thankful to God that we made it even to that burger joint. Dry and looking fine!

We all took our first bites through those layers of buns, meat, veggies and favorite condiments and we all agreed! Nothing tasted better than that good, old hamburger on a rainy day! We didn’t get our barbeque ribs. But that was okay! We all knew it was being together that would make any food taste good! No matter the weather. 

For in this life, no one knows what the future holds. But God does. And if one completely trusts and has faith in Him, he is secure no matter what life brings. So, this coming 2013, let us not look into this year, but look up to God… 

There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD. – Proverbs 21:30 (NIV)

Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.

- Ecclesiastes 3:15 (NIV)

"Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'?

- Isaiah 45:9 (NIV)