Gods Finger Print

Today I was driving into work and listening to the radion when one of my favorite songs came on, "I Saw God Today" by George Strait. Ill admit the song is not necessarly the best written but I love the chorus.

"I've been to church I've read the book I know he's here But I don't look Near as often as I should Yeah, I know I should His fingerprints are everywhere I just slowed down to stop and stare Opened my eyes and man I swear I saw God today."

When I heard this song I thought over the past couple days when God had been making himself known to me in big and small ways. Ill admit the past week had been a hard one and I was wondering if God was still there, or better yet why he was not answering my prayers.

On Sunday the answers began to come when I was sitting in sacrament and listening to talk about trusting in Gods timing for us. The speaker said a few things that stuck with me 1) He mentioned that God has a plan for each of us, at times he shows a big picture and others he waits tell the time to act to show us his plan. 2) Heavenly loves and knows each of us, he knows our needs and when to lead us. And 3) God will often wait to tell us when to act because he trusts us. As long as we stay on a good path and do what we should be doing, as long as we stay our path, he will tell us when to act. We need to learn faith and patience. After sacrament I thought to myself wow what an answer to my prayers. But it got better. In relief society we sang one of my favorite hymns. "Lead Kindly Light" I loves this hymn for it reminds me once again that God has a path and plan for us and that he will reveal step by step when the time is right, but more then this reminder I love the line talking about Gods angels being with us when we allow God to lead our way. Simply trusting is needed.

Yes Sunday was a big way for me to see Gods hand in my life, trust me at the time it had to be big. But yesterday God showed himself in those small ways one often misses. A few weeks ago my car had been broken into and someone stole all my cds and a few other things. Well yesterday my neighbor saw a sign mentioning someone had found a cd wallet full of cds and to call and see if they where yours. Well to my astonishment they where my cds. Most people would have done nothing about this but a good Samaritan did. I know it was because God knew I needed to find those cds, not for the cds but for the reminder that he is there.

These two things made me think a lot about Pres Eyrings talk "Oh Remember" of the importance of writing in our journals the ways we saw God hand in our life daily. As the song and his talk said. Gods there we often have to look to see. But as Pres. Eyring promised as we seek we will begin to more easily see.