Everyone Hates a Wild Goose Chase, but, Look for the Different Door

Monday last week appeared to be the epitome of the first few words of this song by Blue Mountain ... "It's just a vain attempt/Girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl, a Wild Goose Chase!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74antJ3R7F0

I set aside my entire morning for international business ... at least I did get my walk through the park in on my way ...

But after leaving the park, and observing spring's still budding blessings in the streets ...

... it all started going wrong, in a hurry ... every door I entered, though not a shopping center like Blue Mountain sings about, was a no. I literally was going around one particular hill because there was a connecting bus ... but still, no ... whole morning, GONE.

I am a relatively efficient person, whose time is at a premium and whose energy is not the same after that big bout with anemia. So, I was greatly displeased, but also realized: as a Christian, I know God doesn't waste His time or His people's time. The problem is, He is not obligated to explain to me why from my perspective, it looks like I am chasing wild geese around a San Francisco hill.

So I just kept going, being encouraged along the way, though...

... until I realized: what I was trying to do wasn't going to happen, not that day, perhaps not ever because of national and international issues of which there are plenty right now. I was going to have to send the money back until a solution could be worked out. No point in spending any further time: the way was blocked, and no one was interested in explaining how to get it unblocked that I was talking with.

So, on down the street toward home, and to what, or really to who, the wild geese were meant to help me find: a senior citizen in need, at exactly the perfect time for me to help her. That was the whole point: I was neither too early or too late to help preserve a life. That was not the business I intended to do, but it was the business chosen for me, that day, and I was glad enough, in the end, to get that done.

And of course, wouldn't you know it, my international associate and I were able to work out the issue in the next 24 hours, get the fix applied, and I got paid twice as much for the trouble?

Sometimes, life offers us closed doors and wild geese flapping around, and it is so easy to be discouraged and just give up ... and then even when we don't give up, we can literally seem to run out of doors toward what we are trying to do ... but if we pay attention, maybe we are in the world on bigger business than we sometimes think about. I've actually had this kind of thing happen to me more than once, and as frustrating as these situations always are, I have come to understand that these situations are opportunities to look for the different door, and go through it. I pass the idea on to you for your Monday!