There is
a shocking shortage of 20-something women that on are on the roads at the same
time that I commute to work and back.
Nothing.
Nada. Zipporino.
Now this
may not seem like a valid concern or even something worth taking notice of but
for me it is for many reasons:
1. I am a
male. Being of such gender, I notice that all prospective mates of
appropriate age in any situation that I may find myself in. It is not
something that I or any person of the XY model always does on purpose. It
is sort of like how radar picks up the presence any moving object within a
certain perimeter...only my objects are women between the ages of 20 and 25 and
with a pulse...and it is always working.
2.
I would like to someday get married. This fact goes beyond the basic
ability to detect and identifying possible matches and narrows it to the fact
that to usually marry a women...one must meet a women (and no I do not
realistically expect to meet my future wife by passing her on the freeway...I
am not that dumb...but it could happen and thus reason #1).
3.
It sums up the last month and a half of my life (see explanation below).
We all
have expectations for life. No matter how hard we try or strive to not
make plans, we end up making a plan in the process. Humans naturally like
to know what is going to happen, what should happen. Our lives contain an
infinite amount of possibilities for how every single second of our lives could
turn out...think about. At this moment, as you read this, anything could
happen. There is nothing from stopping an elephant breaking free of the
local zoo, picking up a bouquet of flowers, and delivering them to you right
this instant through the new elephant sized sun light in your house.
Anything could happen...there are no limitations, sure some may say stuff
about laws, social etiquette, physics, jail, and other restrictions that
determine what we can and cannot experience in our lives. I am currently
writing this piece from my desk at work during my lunch. Warren Buffet
could walk into the office and tell me that he just bought the company and
inform me that I am fired because he needs my cubicle for his ferret
bungalow. That could happen...it
probably will not, but it could. Reports of miracles from the news and
the Bible give us knowledge that anything is possible despite the supposed
restraints. When there is an infinite God with infinite knowledge in
charge of the universe, possibilities are infinite. THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN
YOUR "EXPECTED" 74 YEARS OF AVERAGE LIFE.
...but
with such unlimited possibilities, we still find expectations.
If my
expectations came true I would be currently resting up for my game as a
professional football player in my Make Tony Stark Jealous engineering lab
where I make the world’s coolest products and with my pregnant Christian model
wife…but obviously things do not always go the way we hope. For me it turned out better than my feeble imagination
could conjure.
I wonder
if that is how Gideon felt as his defending force was cut from 32,000 to 300
(not exactly up to expectations)…and then he conquered an army of 120,000 (way
better than expectations).
How about
when Samuel was told to anoint the next king of Israel and finds himself face
to face with the strapping first born of Jesse…and God said, “Next.”…seven
times until he got to the baby of the family (that is not what he expected)…who
became one of the most acclaimed men and kings to ever live (that is not what he
expected).
I am in a
place that God is bringing me to places beyond my comprehension by taking me
places beyond my comprehension.
I am
loving life in a new state, a new city, a new apartment, and a new job. I am in a place I have never been before and
often find myself completely clueless…that is not any easy place for me to
be. I have always prided myself on
having answers or a direction or at least something to make up. God knew that too and has brought me to this
place so that I do not know where I am going to end up, but I suppose that that
is fun part.
Infinite
possibilities with an infinite God…enjoy the ride. You will probably end up in a place you never
expected.
