Mini Miracles

Hello! This morning God did a major work in my heart and I wanted to brag on Him for a minute.

At work lately, the powers that be have been pushing me to do something I have been less than receptive to.  I tried shrugging it off, putting it off, even blowing it off; but I finally gave in and stopped fighting it- at least that's what I thought I did!

We had a meeting yesterday afternoon about me going around to all 900 of our faculty members and meeting with them to try and improve our store image and relations with the professors, ultimately improving our business.  I do think this needs to happen, but I do not feel this is the correct way to approach this.  I feel at best we'll just bug them and waste their little time they have in between classes.  Like I said, I thought I gave in and accepted the task.  Last night I was moody about not wanting to do this, got over it for a while and moved on.  This morning as my alarm went off, an alarm went off in my head too.  I was instantly reminded about this seemingly unreasonable task, and my aversion to it became apparent.  I was angry at my boss, and at the situation in general.

While I was in the shower, I prayed for God to change my heart.  I knew at this point that I simply could not change the circumstance, but I figured I'd give it a shot with changing my response to it.  It wasn't an instant feel better pass, but I did feel better giving it up to Him. 

During my childhood, I had the Serenity prayer hanging on my wall.  God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.  This did not pop into my head this morning, but upon my reflection of events, it's essentially what I prayed. 

We had another brainstorming meeting this morning, and developed a plan of attack on this behemoth of a project.  I don't know when it was, or how He did it, but suddenly I realized my anger and frustration had vanished! This was one of those truly happy times when I just sent up a silent prayer thanking God, and it put a smile on my face.  I remembered how we need to find contentment not in our immediate circumstances, but in our salvation through Jesus. This gives me the strength to get through the mundane and aggrevating circumstances once I think about it. 

After my change of heart, I was able to think logically about the project and begin to move forward with executing the plan.  Now I have the materials together, a game plan in place, and my first meetings scheduled for this Friday. 

It may not sound like much, but without my surrendering of the situation to God, and asking Him to do a work in the situation and in my heart, I would be in a different place right now.  Instead of getting the opportunity to brag on Him, I'd still be brooding about what a bad idea I think this whole project is.  As I wrote in one of my first posts, I think God really can work anywhere through anything.  We just have to listen! 

I wonder how many other mini miracles in my life I miss because of my pride or frustration.