Thoughts that attack

So I was reading "The confessions of an Economic Hit Man" for my ethics of globalization class. I adore this book. I think everyone should read it! It is so interesting and challenges your normal thoughts of what happen within the government. And while reading it last night it made me think about how the story he is telling has been told hundreds of times before. And most of it is seen in the Bible. 

People long for power and importance. People all try to make their life count. Everyone had a different idea of what makes life "count" but I think that we all try and justify our decisions and our life in general. In this book He is trying to make his life count by destroying the economies of other countries for the benefit of the USA. And this story is seen in the Bible where kings want power and to show up God and do things in his own power. And that sent me into thinking...

If we are Christians we already have a purpose. We have a reason for living: to Glorify God and show Him worthy. And if this is our purpose in life than we don't have to try so hard to justify our lives. We just have to be pawns in God's master plan and let Him show us the importance of our existence. sooo....

That made me think about how I saw my life and others around me in the sense of God's tools for such a greater plan. And yesterday was the 2 year anniversary of a dear friends death. And when I was thinking back to when I heard the news that Becca had died I at the time never thought that God has so many reasons for taking her. I was just angry confused and hurt. I just wanted for God to explain it all. And then yesterday I thought about the multiple purposes that God might have taken her life and what my life had been used for since then. 

It is very interesting and very freeing to look back at your life. Sometimes I saw when I resisted what God had planned and then at other moments I saw how I was open enough to all God had planned and the benefit of letting Him use me! And after thinking about this for about 2 hours I came to the realization that me being in Italy was just another move that God was using me. And I am so excited to look back in 2 years and see what God really used me for here. 

So I challenge you to do the same. Look at your life and see the ways God has used you and the people around you and see all the amazing possibilities that are to come!

-- amazed by the way she was used. kate.