We recently moved to San Antonio where I accepted a new position as Children's Pastor at San Antonio First Church of the Nazarene. More on that whole thing later!
Since we have been here God has been teaching me lessons in a mighty and marvelous (yet subtle) way every day. Hopefully one day I can share all of them but life with a new baby, new home, new job and in a new city has proven to be very time consuming! :) SO - I'll just share the most recent lesson... Whataburger.
Whataburger is the lesson? Well, sort of. You see, here in San Antonio, the fast food options are limited. Unlike Houston, where I literally passed 11 fast food establishments on my way to work, here I only pass 2. (That's if I take the fastest and most similar to Houston route). TWO. We are finding this to be a great problem to have though because it really does limit our consumption of fast food. If it's not easy and convenient - what's the point? But, I digress... back to Whataburger. This is one of the fast food places that I enjoy - breakfast taquitos, bacon cheeseburger, gravy for your fries.... you get the picture. I have only traveled from home to work, Target, Wal-Mart, Office Depot, and basically the mall. If I haven't passed something on those routes, in my mind, they didn't exist. Near Office Depot there is a Whataburger. This is about 10 minutes or so from the church and in the direction of the areas I know... so that is the one I frequent. Maybe I should open my eyes a little wider.
Two days ago, I took a little drive to clear my head before work. I took a right at the stoplight - the opposite direction of anything familiar to me... and what to my wondering eyes should appear?? JUST ABOUT A MILE FROM THE CHURCH? Whataburger. Yep. I have been driving several miles to get to another version of what was waiting just around the corner. DUH CRISSY!
After I finished laughing at myself I realized... How many times do I do this in life? How much time do I spend looking in the same direction - when what I want/need is just around the other corner. God did that to get us here. We finally looked up - and He showed us exactly what we needed to see and where He wanted us to be. So often we get busy in our every day existence that we forget to look around. What needs are waiting just around that corner? Maybe it's a family in need, or a hurting friend. Maybe it's an opportunity to learn a valuable lesson. Maybe, it's a Whataburger.
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I just noticed your "recent" post! Love it.
I have let my own blog fall by the wayside too, but I'm going to try to get better. It's been a YEAR since my last post. A YEAR. That's just ridiculous. All the memories of Alex's first year of life that I didn't document. (No, I didn't write them in the baby book either!) Boo hoo, sniff sniff...
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