*Under Construction*

August 28, 2009

Right now the room is shaking. It's somewhat disturbing, as the room shaking makes you not be able to think about anything else but the fact that the room is shaking. Several hulking, yellow machines are just outside the door, digging very large trenches in the ground, laying pipes for the new sewer system that is going in.

The other day, when the diggers (the "Snorts" as they're called in my favorite kid's book, but, oh, I digress!) and the shakers moved in, I wrote on my facebook as my status: "RUN!! Excavators are taking over the world!!" Heheee... nothing like a little facebook-created hysteria! I've known for a while now that the sewer plan was in place. The planners have come by, I've seen them working on other streets, and last week, they spray painted lines where the digging would take place.

But what if I didn't know?

What if all of a sudden these huge machines just tore in and started tearing apart things? Yeah, I would be a little panicked!

Even now, I look at the back-hoe operators and hope that they know what they're doing. Hope that they know where the gas line is. Hope that the pipe-fitters fit all the pieces together properly. Hope that it's all sealed nicely. I have to remember that it's not just anybody that they put to work on this stuff. They know what they're doing. They've planned for months, years, on this whole project.

God, too, has a whole plan laid out for me for my life. He's planned it for a while now. He knows exactly where it all goes, how it all fits together. He knows right where not to go, where the plans I lay won't work out, or would be dangerous ground to tread. When I see big things happening, I know not to panic. It's under control. It's just under construction. Improvements are being made! I just read in a book the other day (I can't credit it yet, because I agreed not to publish anything about it till Sept. 8 when it comes out!) about Romans 8:28, one of my favorite verses, that God works all things out for good, and if it's not good yet, it's not done yet! I loved that.

Sometimes I've wondered about the places I've been, because the roads have been sometimes rocky, or haven't looked like roads at all, more like wilderness. I've been known to ask Him in retrospect, "why did You lead me THAT way?" To which, I usually am answered, "Jen, YOU chose that detour..." Okay. True.

Last week, a worker came by and left a very large wood stake with a note stapled to it, because I wasn't home at the time. The note asked me to place the stake where I'd like my sewer hookup to be. Me?! He wants me to pick out the best spot? Who am I to pick this spot out? I am not an engineer. I don't know what the most advantageous spot would be. Sure I could figure out the shortest. But heck, I don't know where the gas line is. I have no knowledge of what the rest of the plan is. He put the stake in a spot in my yard where they'd pick for it to go. I left it there.

It's better left to the Expert.

5Trust in the LORD with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
6In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6