Disappointment is REappointment!

This weekend I went camping with my husband.  I enjoyed it.!  We didn't make reservations anywhere, we just packed up and went. We went to one park just for the park (whatever you call those people that check you in) to hear them say, "If you don't have a reservation somewhere you are in trouble.  Every park is full in this area."  I tried to not let the disappointment show on my face.  I put on a smile and said thank you and immediately called my dad, who is a  walking KOA directory.  He told us of several places off the beaten path and much farther than we cared to drive, but I refused to turn around!!  We had come to camp and camp is what we would do.   I had practically been begging my husband for three years to let us "just pick up and go".  Finally, (thank God I was sitting down) one day he looked over at me and said, "Hey, wanna take the trailer and go somewhere for a long weekend?"  Oh, how this wonderful man, my love, my prince knows how to take my breath away!  Naturally my answer was, "You know it!!!!"  Now, this...no room at any inn.  Sounding familiar isn't it?  My wheels began to turn.  I looked at my husband and saw his wheels turning, also!  Then, out of the blue, it hit me.  I ought to just pray about this!  God knows this has been a desire of mine for a long time and He WANTS me to have the desires of my heart. He said Himself nothing was too small or too big for Him so that is just what I did.  I said, "Father, You know exactly the place that has openings.   I am not going to do the very thing I tell others not to do and let what I feel, hear, or see discourage me.  Please, show us where to go."  I mean God does have insider information you know!  As we drove, heading in the direction of one of the parks my dad had told us about, I began to focus and look for God's answer to my prayer.  My eyes were peeled on both sides of the road I had driven down a thousand times.  I was EXPECTING!  I knew God heard me!  I know how much He loves me!  I knew He knew this day was coming and had prepared the way before I got there!  I reminded myself of all of this and wouldn't let myself think of the alternative.  I kid you not, SUDDENLY,  I see a sign that I had never seen before on this road I had driven a thousand times before that said "Log Cabin RV".  "LOOK!!!!", I exclaimed to my husband as he passed it. There it was.  The answer to my prayer.  We turned on a dime, headed back less than half a mile and I saw empty spots!  Oh, how good they looked.  We went in, after hours, and it just so happened the lady had stayed late this day.  Hmmm...wonder how that happened??  My husband asked her if she had anything and she did have 4 spots available.  We grabbed one! I decided to ask her at the last minute how long she had been there....her answer was three years!  WOW!   Now, this was not a "park".  It wasn't what I had pictured.  It was better in some ways and not exactly what I wanted in others.  I began to feel a little disappointment trying to creep up and I began to "self" talk.  "Now, listen girly!  No you won't see bunnies and deer here, BUT you are with your husband, he has planned things away from the park and you are closer to those activities.  You are away from all distractions and the sun shines just as bright here as where you originally planned to go.  You can even drive back and go in to see bunnies and deer from here it is so close."  So true.  I could have had an "Israelite" mentality, or a thankful one!  I didn't even equate the whole experience with how Mary must have felt until I sat down to write this.  She was having our SAVIOUR for goodness sake!  What a woman!  No wonder God chose her to raise our Lord and King!  She could have complained about all the complications that faced them, but she knew she was going to have the Messiah, and that was all that mattered!  This seems more like a Christmas post, but without that birth we would not have had His death and resurrection!  No matter how hopeless things look, don't turn around and go backward!!  Go to God with big and small things.  Change your attitude, for you really don't know why your way didn't work out.  The "new" thing may be the BEST thing without you realizing it.  That is why we trust God.  It isn't trust if we already know it all!  I had to trust my husband, because I didn't know exactly where we were going   I only knew what the end result was going to be.  I simply jumped in the truck, with great excitement and anticipation, and enjoyed the wild flowers along the way.  It didn't matter where we ended up,  as long as we ended up there together.  I didn't wonder if my husband was going to make good on his word!   I trusted him to do exactly what he told me he would do.  It is the same with God.  He is good for His word and He will "make a place" for you, do the impossible, and make it superb in the process!  Have a blessed Easter, my friend!