I’ve been on vacation this week and I totally intended to
spend most of it sleeping.
But something happened…
I started reading The Hunger Games.
Now instead of sleeping, I have spent my vacation reading
well into the wee hours of the morning completely engrossed in the lives of
these fictional characters.
By the first chapter, I knew I was hooked. It only took a
day and a half to make it through the whole book. We were traveling by car, so
I thought I would just finish it, and then have the rest of my vacation to
rest. The problem is that reading this
book is like eating potato chips – you can’t just eat one. And the author gladly obliges by providing,
not one, but two additional books in this series. Just to make sure you pick up
the next book, she ends the previous one with a nice cliffhanger that leaves
you wondering what will happen next, frantically searching Amazon.com for the
next book and counting the seconds it takes to download it on your Kindle. Oh, Suzanne Collins you are good – you are
also responsible for the bags under my eyes –but you are good!
Every good author
knows how to use this human curiosity to keep his/her reader engaged. By nature we are all somewhat curious, but
our level of curiosity, can differ individually. Mine is off the charts. I need to know how the story ends. I need to know what happens next, and when I
don’t know what happens next, it drives me crazy. I know I can’t blame it all
on human nature, I may or may not have a slight control issue here but I can’t
rest until I know. It’s been an issue
that God and I have been working on for a long time- apparently I am a slow
learner. You see, we have a deal worked
out where I let go and He takes care of what happens next – I don’t have to
know, I just have to trust that He knows and He is handling it. Then He lets me
know when it’s the right time for me to know.
It’s a pretty good deal – the best one out there. Looking back it’s always worked out to my
benefit. But sometimes I forget. I get
worried, frustrated, and afraid because I don’t know what’s going to happen
next and then I remember that He does.
How do I really know that He does?
Because He is the Author and He is writing my story. I am just the reader, reading by faith, as
He writes on the pages of my life.
Hebrews 12:2
"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our
faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."
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