Playdough.
When I was a kid, and my mother would buy me with playdough. My world would light up, I would take the playdough roll it into a ball, a snake, and sometimes a pan. My mom saw playdough as being safer than sand when I was little. I remember taking my little, bright yellow container full of playdough everywhere with me, so that at any time I can whip it out and let my imagination take control.
The beauty about playdough is that with a huge imagination, you can create playdough to be anything you want it to be. However, the biggest disappointment with playdough is that if you leave it out to long, then it begins to dry it out. I don't see this as a positive note because I would get so upset when my playdough colors mixed, who wants to have yellow and green playdough combined, and when you attempted to separate the conjoining colors it seemed nearly impossible.
Sometimes in life we are placed in situations like playdough where we think we can fix things for the best. If two colors mix with playdough, we can simply try to separate them. Or if we leave our playdough to long and it starts to dry, we can place it back in the container.
What if it was meant for that blue and red playdough to be mixed together, or what if your playdough was meant to be dried out on one side?
"I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstance to shape me."
-Bob Goff
Not that difficult but obstacles like hanging out with someone who seem more troubled, or moving somewhere where you don't know anybody. I use to think the same exact way, I can find a way to make better any thing I am faced with. To simply stop hanging out with the troubled kid, or make a bunch of new friends from a new place. However, I have come to realize is that Jesus puts me in circumstances to make me better. He doesn't have to tell me why he does, what he is doing, instead he just simple does it. God puts the troubled in your life for you to walk them to Christ, or maybe in the no name town, God wants to draw you closer to him and allow him to be the one you call friend.
"All along, what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored to us."
-Bob Goff
The beauty about playdough is that with a huge imagination, you can create playdough to be anything you want it to be. However, the biggest disappointment with playdough is that if you leave it out to long, then it begins to dry it out. I don't see this as a positive note because I would get so upset when my playdough colors mixed, who wants to have yellow and green playdough combined, and when you attempted to separate the conjoining colors it seemed nearly impossible.
Sometimes in life we are placed in situations like playdough where we think we can fix things for the best. If two colors mix with playdough, we can simply try to separate them. Or if we leave our playdough to long and it starts to dry, we can place it back in the container.
What if it was meant for that blue and red playdough to be mixed together, or what if your playdough was meant to be dried out on one side?
"I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstance to shape me."
-Bob Goff
Not that difficult but obstacles like hanging out with someone who seem more troubled, or moving somewhere where you don't know anybody. I use to think the same exact way, I can find a way to make better any thing I am faced with. To simply stop hanging out with the troubled kid, or make a bunch of new friends from a new place. However, I have come to realize is that Jesus puts me in circumstances to make me better. He doesn't have to tell me why he does, what he is doing, instead he just simple does it. God puts the troubled in your life for you to walk them to Christ, or maybe in the no name town, God wants to draw you closer to him and allow him to be the one you call friend.
"All along, what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored to us."
-Bob Goff
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