Sunsetting on my road.........Amber

It's amazing what things I forget sometimes. I never used to think I was forgetful but now I'm not sure. Hah. For the past couple of days I've been really focused on the here and now which is good; but then I sometimes lose perspective on things.

Life is like driving a car right? I mean if you keep your eyes constantly in your rear mirror(focusing on your past), then you can't see ahead and obviously you're going to hit ditch/other random things. But then again you need to check your rear mirror sometimes to make good decisions on where you are driving. I love that analogy and it really helps me to balance out my thought life.

But today it was really bizare, the things God was reminding me of in my past. I was on my way to SCA (my old youth group) for a Zambian presentation and as I was pulling out I noticed this massive, fat sunset behind my house in the field. So I was like 15 minutes late to this meal/theater presentation, because I was just sitting there thinking that heaven must look something close to this! And when I finally got to the church, there was a part in the play that described the beauty of an African sunset and how it's probably what heaven looks like. And the Zambian presentation was half multimedia and filmed in Zambia in the community that we had just worked in last summer so we recognized the one pastor and a couple of the kids! It was so incredibly vivid in my mind! I've just been trying to teach myself some self-control when it comes to focussing on missions because I know I get easily distracted; so I try to keep my mind off of it. But it was just such a gift from God to be able to enjoy what is in my heart! WOOT!

During this entire presentation I was sitting with a couple of girls from the high school. And they also work at the local library in our town. And one of them asked me if I knew that I was an author. And I was kind of stunned and said not really. I had no idea what they were talking about at first. All my childhood I wanted to be a writer....but it was something that is a very private thing for me now...
But then they told me the title of the book and the light bulb went on! It was actually a story that me and Stefani had written when we were in grade 6 and someone had published it and put it in our local library ( HAh STef if you're reading this I'm going to go find the book for us this week! ahha) And all of a sudden I was remembering all of these dreams of writing that I used to have when I was like in grades 3 all the way to like highschool that I had COMPLETELY forgotten about! All so very bizare.

So yeah onward we go, but always letting God remind us of what we need to direct our future.