Maybe it's both.--Day 29

I wonder if I my blogs would be the same if I knew people were reading this. Probably not. It is my goal to be a more positive person, and who can help with that more than God? Maybe I read too much into things, searching for positive meaning or searching for God's hand in it, but I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Believers and non-believers alike may roll their eyes at some things I write, but I'm cool with that.

On Tuesday, I spent much of my free time at work beginning to memorize someone's 100 best verses to memorize. I particularily like Hebrews 4:12 and Phillipians 4:6-7. They are both very eloquent.

It was interesting being in the state of mind of memorizing verses, reading them over and over, trying to meditate on them and then seeing what I saw when I left work. I walk outside and it is raining. My Iraqi friend, Christo, who is three years from retirement and seemingly always in a good mood, notices the obvious, cooling rain and sees me across the parking lot on my way to my car. He shouts "Halleluiah!" That put a smile on my face. As soon as he finishes saying that, several birds fly up and away from the roof of one of our buildings. That made the smile last even longer.

The birds reminded me of one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies, Forrest Gump. After Forrest says his last goodbyes to Jenny, birds fly up and away from the tree symbolizing her ascent into Heaven. My favorite line is in that favorite scene from one of my favorite movies. As Forrest chokes back tears and is filled with emotion most of us do not like to think about, this man of supposedly little intelligence tries to figure out whether his momma is right in that "You never know what your gonna get." or if Lt. Dan is right in that "Everyone has a destiny". Three words seems to summarize this two hour, award winning movie: "Maybe it's both." He's right. From the feather at the beginning and end of the movie to every life that he touched to my daily life and everyone in it, you never know what's going to happen or where you're going to end up, but there is a plan for each of us. We do have a destiny. I hope my destiny and everyone I know ends with us in heaven. I hope. That is another very small but very powerful sentence that ends another great movie, The Shawshank Redemption, but I'll leave that for another blog.