“Be thankful for the people in your life, they were put there for very specific reasons.”

I have these friends that live out of state. I have never met them but I love them deeply. They are the parents of my sons girlfriend. They inspire me on every level. They make me want to do better, be better and the longer I know them the more I want to know them. I’ve known them just a year yet they have had an impact on my life that I just cannot believe is a coincidence. God put them in my life, I’m sure of it just as I breathe air. I have not figured out why exactly yet but it’s for more than one reason. I believe that He put them in my son’s life because he was supposed to meet his girlfriend. Moreover I believe I was supposed to meet their family.

They inspire me with their faith so much so that I have devoted my days to having a better relationship with God on a level much deeper than I have ever had. I turn everything over to them every day. Good, bad, happy, sad all of it goes to God daily. I have now nearly completed reading the entire Bible because I believe I need to read His word regularly and devote part of every day to Him. Since I stepped it up, and because of that family, I have learned how good God really is when you give your life to Him.

My son is moving to the same state as this family for a job. I know God intended him to be there because he had another job closer to home and all of a sudden this other job surfaced and like it was meant to be, which it was, he got that job. I believe this happened because God wants me and my family to go there. I don’t think so, I know so without a shadow of a doubt that this family was put in my path because I am supposed to have them in my life and my future lies there. I don’t know what that future is but it’s not here.

I’ve been with my husband for 33 years. He’s lived a hard life and is untrusting and skeptical of everyone because of that. He lets no one in 100% even me. He doesn’t want to have deep conversations and he thinks he’s smarter than most people. Honestly I think he is but it is clear when you talk to him that everyone else in the world is “doing it wrong”. LOL He’s nice but keeps his distance from almost everyone. I didn’t want him to meet that family. I didn’t want him to rip them up to my son or find all the faults with them and tear up my son’s happiness. I believed my husband to be a roadblock to my son’s joy and I wanted my son to have happiness all to himself but my son took my husband to meet them. I really didn’t want that and I was afraid they would not like my husband’s hard and judgy attitude but that didn’t happen. The good things my husband had to say about them, their home and that place took me off guard! I felt the roadblock slide to the side as I listened to him talk about how much he likes them. I prayed hard last night thanking God for hearing my prayer for Rob should he meet them. He was adamant that he wasn’t going and in the end God had other plans and a different outcome than I imagined. God is good and only He knows what will happen. Our job is just to follow where he takes us.

There may be other reasons that God gave this wonderful family to us but that involves predictive conjecture which I just don’t have the power to decide. I have heard the Lord loud and clear and with everything that happens, as my son moves away, I am more and more sure that he’s meant to go. God is paving the way for me. I don’t know what the future is and it could be 10 years before I know, however, I am certain I am headed in the right direction literally, with the right people at the other end to receive me whenever I eventually go.