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Right Place, Right Time

January 19th, 2018

As I have seen over the past week, there is a reason that the Lord puts people in your life for a reason, time and place. Sometimes these are really obvious but other times they aren't. Other times hindsight is 20/20 and we look back to realize why we experienced what we did.

Sometimes there is great joy out of the places we find ourselves. Things are happy because there are so many good people around us and everything seems to be falling into place.

Other times trial produces great sorrow and we don't see an end to the pain. However, I hope, you have the same great people that will love you through it. Or in my case, some new ones will arise.

I have recently found that I might not fully understand what God is doing by rearranging who is in my life in my last semester of college. But I know to trust Him. There are a lot of new people that I am truly afraid of losing but I also know that the Lord makes all things work for my good.

I don't know if I truly believe that timing is everything in life because our timing is not God's. I know that in new friendships there comes great joy and laughter that is unexplainable. Joy of the Lord that I would not trade for the world.

People that let me be myself. People that let me cry. People that let me laugh. People placed in my life at just the moment I needed them. I may not know why or where these friendships are going but God does. So for now I go with the flow.

Is there someone that has been put in your life at the right place and time and you just haven't taken the time to notice?

xoxo,
Em


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