During a recent trip to see our grandson graduate, our granddaughter our daughter an her husband knowing we wanted pictures of wild life took us to a state park just north of their town of Eagle River, Alaska. When we got there we were treated to some spectacular views of the Chuigak mountains and the Eagle River, but no eagles or wildlife except one.
At first I was disappointed thinking we failed to locate wildlife in Alaska, this is like going to the zoo and seeing no animals!!! Come on this is ALASKA, right?
However after thinking about it now and looking back over the pictures we did take, we captured moments we haven't shared in quite sometime. Spending time with our grandchildren and our daughter. This is even more rare than catching wildlife on camera.
Sometimes we think of failure in our tasks because we failed to achieve what we wanted to accomplish, however what we really have to remember is who is really calling the shots. God is perfect in his timing and in his wisdom for us. Considering how many times I have had to call out his name in fear of being overrun with something I have screwed up on, the controls are better off in his hands..
The older I become the more I am understanding to fail at everything, success is when I turn to him for everything, I couldn't imagine trying to wake up after 5 hours of sleep to put this on the computer for anyone to read, not even sure I can take credit for opening the orange juice by myself.
We are such control freaks that we couldn't possibly see anyone else in control, right?? Well as for me my friends, I am learning to fail at everything to lean on him for all things, better to perish like a ship on the ocean than wither like grass in the heat of the sun from its own boasting of self reliance.
