Wisdom from a chocolate wrapper

I just got back to the office after a week long vacation and I found a lovely present from my co-workers ...... they tinfoiled my entire desk and everything on it. I mean everything. Each little pen in the cup, my teddy bear, all of the papers, even the returned mail that I have to deal with. Everything! It took me a half hour to unwrap everything and straighten the place up.

They did leave me a nice present though. I had a little Dove chocolate sitting in my chair, just waiting to be unwrapped and eaten. Raspberry filled too!! And since it was a Dove chocolate, it was not only delicious, it had something to say ........

"Every connection has the potential to change your life."

Smart little wrapper that one.

But then I thought about it. Is that really true? Does my life really change with each person that I meet, each situation that I find myself in or put myself into? I'm not entirely convinced that's true. In fact, I'm much more convinced that it is in fact untrue.

My God is sovereign. He knows what he's doing and he's got me going somewhere. It's not a mystery to him, just to me. If each of my connections had that much power over me and my life, that seems to say that God does not. Now how does that work out? It doesn't really which leaves me with this thought .........

"Every connection has the potential to change the path that you think your life is taking."

They don't actually change your life, they just change your perception of your life. I never in my whole life thought that my future would be looking the way that it does. It never once crossed my mind. But how could it? I put my plans into place based on what I had at my fingertips at the time. How was I to know that Nathanael was out there? How was I to know that MasterWorks existed? How was I to know that our paths would cross there when I had never even heard of Winona Lake?

But it all happened. And the only people that it surprised were the two of us. God knew. He watched it happen. He made it happen. He put the connections there. And he'll keep putting them there.

I think Dove got it wrong.