Taking Care of Everything

I just found out my family was in a car accident back at home… while I’m half-way around the world, here in Holland. Apparently, my mom was rear-ended while driving home with the boys the other day. Thankfully, everybody is ok. But the van looks terrible. At least from the picture she sent. It’s weird for me to be away from home during times like this. It’s also weird to hear about this sort of thing through facebook since that’s really my only main form of communication while I’m gone. As my mom chatted with me over Instant Message about the incident, I just kept getting more and more tense about it – seeing as I wasn’t even there to comfort them and that my dad wasn’t even home from work yet. But our IM chat came to an end when mom typed, “Dad just got home…”

At that point, suddenly, I felt ok. It was ok that I wasn’t there with them; daddy was there now. And daddy would take care of everything.

Daddy would know what to do. He would know who to call and where to get the best prices. He would know what to tell mom. He would know. And everything and everyone would be safe.

And that reminded me… once again… that that’s just like my Heavenly Daddy. Here I am half-away across the world, maybe a little confused about some things and definitely feeling like there’s no such thing as rest. But one day, my Big Daddy is coming back. And He’s going to take care of everything. In fact, He already is. I don’t have to worry or try to take control of anything, because HE knows what to do. In that, I can rest. I can “sit,” so to speak… and that gives me energy and courage to be able to be or do or walk wherever He calls me. But only as I first rest in and with Him.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus through ALL generations, for ever and ever! – Ephesians 3:20-21