This is L.A.

I had never seen the lights of L.A. from the top of the Hollywood hills until this summer, my first experience in California. I had wanted to go there all my life. In fact, when I was younger I really believed that I wanted to live there. I loved the thought of it, the power of a town like Los Angeles and the beauty of the west coast. There is something special there, and it was a great place to visit.

But I would never want to live there. L.A. was dirty, noisy, and very, very crowded. We got to experience an L.A. traffic jam first hand, going all the way from north Hollywood down to Anaheim, a trip that according to our GPS should take 30 minutes, but for us took almost 2 hours.

It just went to prove something to me yet again; God knows more than I do. What I thought would be the perfect place for me to live turned into a great vacation with no aspiration for anything more. He knew where I needed to be, and He knows what He has in store for me. His plans are big, and my brain is small, and so rather than try to figure out everything He has for my life, I am learning to just worship Him with all I have and let His perfect will for my life guide me the rest of the way.