This is not normal!

As I write this it is before ten in the morning, the sun has been shining for hours, it is very warm outside and the temperature is to reach the high 80's. I am wearing my summer shorts and a light cotton short sleeve purple top. I am sitting outside by the pool as the pool man prepares the pool for the days activitiy. Why am I telling you all this?

Because this is not normal for me for the month of March. However, this is normal for the folks here in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

As I reflected on life and lessons learned along life's journey, I thought about the times when life just doesn’t seem normal. Often it is when I am facing an especially busy season or when I am going through some particularly trying times. I find  myself saying, "this is just not normal". Often during these times I also find myself thinking, "I will be glad when things return to normal".

The lesson I am trying to learn is to accept the not normal times as God's journey. He wants me to depend on him doing the normal and the not so normal days. The life journey God took most people in the Bible on was not normal according to most people's version of normal. Peter walked on water (not normal), Jonah found himself in the belly of a whale (not normal), David fought a giant (not normal), Moses crossed the sea on dry ground (not normal) and Lazarus came back to life (not normal).

Perhaps what is not normal to me is normal to God. He has a plan for each of my days and my attitude should be to accept what He brings my way each new day. Right now, I’m lovin this 80 degree day in sunny Florida!