We have all done it. You put your keys in the same place every day. It is such a routine that you don’t even think about where you are setting them until you realize that one day you didn’t set them there. Yesterday morning I woke up to go to work and I realized that my keys were not in my pocket. Then, as my fright or flight response began with sweat trickling down my face and chills down my spine I realized, I have absolutely no idea where they are. I tried retracing my steps all day yesterday but I seriously have no clue where I put them.
So this gets me thinking about the order of the universe (How about that transition?!) Every single day I think I’ve got it all figured out. I mosey around acting as if I am an expert at my research, work out as if I am some professional athlete, write on my blog as if this world needs a blog like mine. All these things, some things I do well, some not, I act as if I do under complete control of the situtation.
Then the fabric totally unravels when I do something completely absent-minded like losing my keys. And whenever something like this happens it brings me back to earth about how little I am actually in control. While this may seem like a bad thing in our control happy, me first world today, I am convinced we get the better end of this deal.
Because I think that God is in control. God gives us the power to make choices every day, but if we have the faith in him to realize that he understands the missteps we make and has forgiven them through his grace, we can realize that mundane, temporary problems like losing keys are not a big deal compared to the immensity of the cosmos that God holds into balance every day. Just imagine if we humans were truly the masters of the universe we pretend to be. Instead of losing things like keys we would probably be crashing planets into each other and forgeting which way solar systems rotate.
But seriously, losing my keys has helped me to chill out and take my life a little less seriously. It is suprising when bad events can have a good effect like this, and when it happens, I like to give all the credit to God’s wonderful grace, an indescribable gift.
