Awesome God

As long as I have been a Christian, I am still struck with awe when I see how God demonstrates his infinite power in our daily lives. Tuesday, I traveled a couple of hundred miles to attend the annual Colorado Christian Writer’s Conference in Estes Park. I’ve been doing it since somewhere around 2003. I missed the year my son and daughter-in-law got married, but all in all, I’ve made the trip at least five times.

This year was a little different. First, I had worked the night before, so I only managed about four hours sleep before it was time to get organized (a major feat for me!) and hit the road. I had arranged to pick up another conferee in Colorado Springs. I was okay with this until she gave me directions to her house and I thought, “oh my gosh, I’ve never driven in this part of Colorado Springs. I’ll get hopelessly lost for sure.” I was a little out of my comfort zone here, but I figured with my GPS, which my sweet husband had given me for Christmas a couple of years ago, I’d do all right.

Let me explain at this point that, as much as I love to drive, I am somewhat visually impaired. I’m right at the limit to drive – 20/40 in one eye with correction. So, I can’t read street signs as quickly as the average person, my depth perception is poor, so more than two-lane traffic can throw me into a state of acute anxiety. I love my pick-up, but ever driven through Denver? You get the picture.

Anyway, a couple of days before the conference, I received an email from the lady who was coordinating transportation. She desperately needed a driver to pick up a conferee who was flying into DIA from Texas. I knew she had about run out of options, so I told her I could do that. Now I was really out of my comfort zone. Me in DIA?! I’d done it a couple of times, but it’s not my favorite place to be.

I started the trip a half hour late, so that added to my anxiety. However, despite the fact I was behind schedule, I took a few minutes alone with God to ask for safe travel, good driving sense, and a calm heart. He gave me all of those. When I called my friend in Springs to tell her I would be a little late, she was glad to have the extra time with her kids.

When we arrived at DIA, the friend I was meeting there was waiting right at the terminal pick-up point. Didn’t even have to park, which is the nightmare I dread in a big airport. Things worked out so well that I question why I ever doubted they would. If only we would remember that our God is such an awesome God, how much anxiety and worry would we save ourselves!

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