It's still fate

Life is so crazy. I mean, you never know where your going to end up. I had this friend who thought he'd marry this girl. He's in Vietnam now. She's getting married in two weeks to someone else. And we can remember the heartache for them both, and think of all the crazy things that brought their relationship to end. But in reality, it was just meant to be this way. He wasn't for her. She wasn't for him. I look at their lives once united, now running apart on different trails, and they're both excitedly happy.

She's madly in love with her fiance. She goes to bed every night thinking of him, his love, his face, and what mercy God had to give him to her. She smiles as she sleeps because tomorrow is another day less to that big day. She anxiously anxiously waits to be his misses, and no one can shake her joy.

He's filled with purpose and wonder. He goes to bed every night thinking what new thing he's learning tomorrow. He doesn't waiver or wander, but thanks God for the opportunity to fulfill his purpose. He awakes to a brand new adventure that he longed for since he was a boy. He wouldn't change his experience, because he knows its quickly changing him.

Life is so elusive. Who can really know what its doing, where its taking us. And we can sit and complain and cry about the pain and the unknown. The only thing we need to understand is that life knows better than us. The only thing we can do is trust that God knows better than we, and will bring us to that goodness.

I guess today I'm learning not to complain about the path, but ask God to help me learn from it; and not just learn from it, but learn it and know it well so that in the future I can look back and remember exactly where I came from and why.