Brain Wanderings...

Just something I'm mulling over in my mind...

Today I had it in my mind that we would enjoy a hard ice cream cone. I wanted a place that had lots of flavours, and I wanted it to be fun and special. It all turned out to be a lot more work than I had anticipated as the first location I was thinking of was too far away. So I messaged someone in Port Alberni that I only know via facebook and she gave me a few suggestions. Google maps is terrible in Port Alberni, so the first place it sent us to was wrong. This was already after a long day, and a horrible shopping trip with the girls begging for every piece of junk food under the sun when I'm just trying to get some healthy food on the table for a decent price. At first, when the gps sent us to the wrong place, I decided to just give up and go to McDonalds. But something inside me said to try just one more time. So I drove a bit further - and there it was. The shopping area I had been told about. 

We walked in the first store and I was less than impressed. I saw candy, but I didn't see ice cream. Kylar said there had been about 3 flavours but I wasn't about to choose from 3 flavours. I wanted lots of flavours! The next store had the generic frozen drumsticks in a freezer and Giselle said excitedly "That's what I want!" and I felt really disappointed. Didn't she know that I had something much better in mind than what you can find at every corner store? So we kept walking. FINALLY! We found a cute little ice cream stand with 15 flavours and a really sweet woman who probably gave us just a tad bit extra seeing as the girls were so cute... and then we walked around in the freezing wind with our super yummy ice cream cones. 

I wonder how often Jesus has something really special in mind for us but we get tired of looking for it and just settle for the generic? How often does he plan for something, is excited to give it to us, but we stop short of the fulfilment of the gift because we just weren't quite patient enough? When Giselle asked for the drum stick, it wasn't that she asked for something wrong or bad. It was just that I knew she would enjoy the variety of the hard ice cream more. I didn't feel upset that she was ready to settle - I had just been excited to give her something even better. 

Asking Jesus to give me eyes to see the gifts he is wanting to give - and to be patient for the fulfilment of his dreams for us.