Does the turtle question its existence? Why, Creator, must I live for months lurking low in the cold water? Why didn’t you make me to swim and plod freely, always? Why should I dwell here alone, silent, still, waiting? I assume the flora and fauna of creation know their lot. They just live it, there is no why.
God gave me free will, however, and sometimes I use it to question Him— the Creator and God Most High! What is the plan for the turtle and what is the plan for me? Whatever the mode and method, I know that He brings me to salvation and abundant life, so I trust. Ultimately, I trust.
Change leads to transformation. Testing leads to refinement. The seasons God moves through my life are heavy with the seeds of His promises. The winters are perfectly bitter, the summers, flawlessly steamy. I’m turned over. I let go. I bend toward Him.
I must move with change like God’s living world, with willingness and acceptance. It is about becoming and faith, obedience and love. It is dwelling here, and there, with God. Above and below, in the stillness and in the flow.
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:16-17
Meeting God at the Park 