Matthew 6:25-34 urges us not to worry about every day life. It reminds us how God provides everything we need and to have faith. Our disconnect is not understanding that what WE think we need may not truly be what we need!
Our human culture often attempts to define what we need via commercials on television, and other visual methods that depict riches, and material items we should aspire to. Those items and images are forced upon us. Those images are often not what we need.
My spouse and I have achieved our dream of having a winter getaway home, only through the grace of God. We always thought we could not afford a second home/winter getaway home unless we had a financial windfall such as winning a lottery. But, God showed us that our current incomes was sufficient enough to purchase a second home that would be our winter getaway home. The home is nothing extravagant but it is modern, in a new development, and in a warm weather state. My wife and I had previously spent the equivalent of two months of mortgage payments at a vacation resort in the past. So we knew we had the means, but the question was where to search for the second home?
Last December on one of these expensive vacations, we were relaxing on a bench, God sent to us a gentlemen, I call our Guardian Angel, who inspired us to put our efforts to finding a winter getaway into action. God had already placed in my mind that 2020 would be a year when I would cut back on some areas of my spending and just save money. After talking to our Guardian Angel, I began the serious search for a second home. This lead to finding an opportunity in Florida.
Here is how God works. My prior job in Human Resources for the federal government had me as a black male hitting the glass ceiling where jobs I aspired to I was not selected for. I found myself working in a six figure job with no challenging assignments. Instead of complaining, I of course continued to seek challenges. But until the challenges came I used the time to get away from the job and enjoy life. I traveled to Hawaii, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite Park and other destinations to see the world. I called it my Pre Retirement Tour.
God then allowed an opening to occur in Human Resources where I was selected to be a key program manager for 2 years. After that again the glass ceiling was put back into place above me. I sought positions across the country seeking to earn the salary I made and new challenges. Finally God lead me to a Director of Human Resources job in Saint Louis, Missouri where I had spent the first 11 years of my life. While there one of the employees on my staff became one of my friends. After I retired from that job we stayed in touch. This friend told me about a community in Florida to check out as he had moved there. I finally followed his lead after meeting my Guardian Angel last December.
That community is where my wife and I found our getaway home that provides everything that we need. It's within driving distance of a beach, and provides all the privacy and other amenities that we need and desired of a second home.
Sometimes what we already have is what we need. Sometimes God has already provides us the means to have what we need. Beware of those shows on television that display grandiose homes and feature lottery winners who are buying their dream homes. Call timeout in your life. Assess if God has already provided what you need. He did for us.
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