CHUKWUNETA OBY
It was in a foreign land! I didn’t know my way around. And there was the language barrier.
A loved one had surgery on the leg and that necessitated a special kind of wear for him.
I had been directed to a market district where I could buy such wear and I went but found nothing suitable for him. A lot of shop owners didn’t even understand what I was asking for!
Dejected, I began to find my way back to our residence.
I took a public transport I thought was the usual that headed towards my destination.
It was not until halfway through the journey that it dawned on me that I had entered the wrong vehicle.
As if reading my mind, the driver stopped abruptly and pointed to the other side of the road, and told me (using his hand) to walk down that route, as that’s the nearest path to my destination.
How?
That’s not the route that I had come to identify as the way home. Anyway, I did as he directed me.
I walked by two policemen and was about to ask them for directions…when something caught my attention, a few blocks away.
It was a shop. And the wears displayed outside looked like what I was looking for.
So, I waved at the policemen (instead) and began to walk in the direction of that shop.
Indeed, it sold exactly what I was looking for in various colours, at good prices.
I did my shopping there and began to walk down again.
I thought to myself that the worst-case scenario would be sightseeing and taking a taxi (although costly) back home.
What you won’t believe is that the next few blocks that I walked led straight to my street.
It’s even a shorter distance than the route I had been plying!
Maybe, that was life’s unconventional way of showing me a shorter way home, and the miracle of finding what I sought (from where I wasn’t expecting to find it) was also thrown in.
I have long concluded that LIFE knows what she is doing.
Here’s what I tell people…
Even when you are doing your best in a given situation, learn to tell God ‘’I leave it in your hands’’. And be at peace.
You may look back someday to realise that the best thing that happened to you was that situation not going your way.
I can’t even begin to tell you how often I recall certain settings of the past and shudder at what would have become of me today, had things gone my way.
Indeed, God knows how to save us from ourselves. And life has our back.
