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I learned that if I try to manipulate a situation, God will allow my plans to change so that His will be accomplished.

In the recent one-day Mexico mission trip, I asked people to volunteer at various locations. But I also used my “executive power” to put certain people in specific locations with the intent of doing what I think is best for them.

As it turned out in one case, the person I put in a location where I thought was a favor to him turns out not wanting to be there. So in the end, I changed him back to where he asked to be in the first place.

That probably makes no sense to anyone reading this, but to me, it was an incident where I saw the hand of God at work in an unexpected way.

God taught me that my wisdom is not that wise. He taught me to continually submit to Him. He taught me to ask Him first.

I often hear people say “You have to do what you love.”

It would be nice to be able to be able to make money doing something you love. But in the real world, that doesn’t always happen.

Does that mean you should only do what you love? And if you don’t love what you do, you shouldn’t do it?

I am glad to hear WriterDad put it in perspective – “I don’t need to fall in love with every career I have. I have my wife and children to be in love with. I want my business to be lucrative.”

In the perfect world, we would make a lot of money doing what we love. Even then, you don’t love every day of your work.

But in the real world, doing something you are good at that makes you good money is not a bad thing.

I am still looking for what I would love to do that can make me money. In the meantime, I’ll just do what can make me some money.

I am glad that I have a husband and children to be in love with.

A discussion came up – why doesn’t God answer seemingly “good and reasonable” prayers like healing a child of cancer? Isn’t it weird why God doesn’t answer some prayers and answer others?

Elliot: It would be more weird if God answered all our prayers.

Thanks, Elliot. That actually helps me a lot.

I am glad I got to spend a little time with my dad today.

I don’t often make the effort to drive the 45 minutes to see him. Since he needed someone to take him to a doctor’s appointment today, I was glad to have the opportunity.

He bought me dim sum for lunch with plenty to take home too 🙂

We were talking about my cousin in Boston, and my dad assumed I hadn’t talked to my cousin in years. Which is true, I haven’t. But recently we connected on Facebook, and I wanted to tell my dad that.

How do I explain to my 85 year old dad about social networking sites? How do I explain about friends and profiles and writing wall to wall?

I give my dad credit for getting on email, reading the news, and checking his stocks online. Maybe I should tell him to get a FB.

I realize now what my mom had to go through.

I came from a family of 4 kids, with only a span of 6 years between us. My mother was a Stay-At-Home mom; we were her life. None of her own family lived near us, they were in other countries – Hong Kong, Australia, Canada. Without phone cards or Skype or email those days, she talked to her family a couple of times a year at best.

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