Seek and ye shall find. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. I will go before you and make the crooked places straight.
What all of these statements (and countless others) point to – at least to me – is this: seek God and God will ensure you find It.
What I’ve found is that the more earnest and steadfast my search, the more help is delivered (never the way I expect it – keeps the process interesting).
And boy have I been graced, blessed, gifted with help along the way. Consider: my daughter recently married. The location she chose: Hawaii. The island she chose: the one my favorite spiritual teacher called home (he died in 1964). The community she chose: his again.
What are the chances?
While we were there I was able to grab a coffee with one of his former students. During our chat he revealed the location of our teacher’s former home, a place where he often gave his talks. The location: literally right next door to the garden in which my daughter married (I could see the home from the altar).
What are the chances?
Before we said our goodbyes, I asked if there were any groups still actively practicing our teachers’ lessons. He gave me a name. When I returned home, I reached out. The location of this man and his group: a small community in North Carolina. Which is directly adjacent to the new community my daughter and her new husband are relocating to this week.
Again, what are the chances?
This happens all the time. Which means it’s not chance, it’s orchestration.
Another example – even more incredible – has been brewing these past few months. Maybe I’ll reveal it at a later date, but for now it’s still unfolding and I want to give it room to breathe and spread its wings and see where it takes me.
I write these words to encourage anyone who has lost or is losing hope to persevere in the search for your Truth, for God, for hope. Remind yourself that gifts will come, but you may not recognize them until later. Nor are they the kinds of gifts esteemed by human culture – you can’t hang them on a wall or tuck them into the bank or brag to your friends about them.
But they will sustain you in a way that food or water cannot. (I have meat you know not of.)