The road home

This evening I decided to drive out to the gas station to get chocolate. Don’t judge, I needed it, haha! Even more, I just wanted to drive, to get out. It just felt good to be moving. To be going somewhere. And I thought it would be a short little trip.

But then something happened.

I was driving back to my house. Distracted by a semi waiting on me, I turned and suddenly realized I turned on the wrong road. The road I wanted -the quiet little country road back to my house- was the next one.

I was merging onto the highway, nervous driving my dad’s huge slow truck with a pounding headache. I knew the gas tank was on empty, and this road did not have an exit for a very, very long time.

As I was driving, I was thinking about how the road symbolized my college life. Long, and I had been driving on empty. Then came a rest stop. And even though I didn’t stop at it, that’s where I would be right now in this metaphor.

I glanced down at the gas gauge, which had been flirting dangerously with the E mark for the past 15 minutes.

God, would you up the gas on this?

I actually said it aloud, unintentionally, then dismissed it.

Sorry, that was dumb.

“God, whatever you want to happen, that’s fine with me. I don’t care.” Really. The thought of being stranded on a roadside didn’t make a difference to me. Whatever situation I was getting myself into, I just knew, matter-of-factly, God would get me out of it. Sometime.

I looked down at my gas gauge.

It was up to a half a tank.

“Really? God, are you serious right now?” I felt a tear slip down my cheek, but blinked the rest away. I’m driving…

It meant more to me because of the metaphor I had going on in my head. Not only did something impossible just happen, but it spoke to me about my life and trusting Him.

Gas you’ve burned up doesn’t just refill on it’s own.

But it…just…did.

Sometimes God works and speaks in ways I can’t explain. What happened today may seem insignificant to others, but to me, it was like God was telling me, “I’m going to get you home. And if you don’t have what you need in you, I will give it to you. Just keep trusting me that whatever situation could happen, I will get you through it.”

It was a long ride; I didn’t get to get off that road until I was in another county, but I made it. God got me where I needed to be.

Today was His reminder- He’ll always keep doing that.

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