What if-

Well it’s been a while since I have written; not because I haven’t been riding, but simply because I didn’t feel led to share anything. Have you ever played the “what if” game in your mind? I have done so more often than I care to recall. What if I had more time to do what I wanted, what if I had more money, what if……

We can ask those questions all day long and not really get anywhere. The truth is we make time for what we choose to make time for and we often find a way to buy the things that are most important to us at the time. That doesn’t mean we always do what we want, or get what we want.  If we stop and look at what we did, or what we bought,  it tells us a lot about our mind set at the time. Many times, given the opportunity later, we probably would choose differently.

I have discovered since learning to ride my own bike, that I find time to ride most every day that I can and that it has led me to a much better mind set in the long run because of what riding does for me. It gives me alone time. It gives me time to evaluate things that are going on with me and with those I love. It allows me to work through things in my mind without anyone else talking to me, texting me, or having input in any way in my thoughts and feelings at that time. Riding has allowed me to have time talking with God and really being able to listen to what He may be trying to tell me. Does this mean I always listen and always understand it all immediately? No it doesn’t, I am still human. These writings are a result of those conversations though. This is definitely something I never thought I would do. I have found in the past several years, that I do many things that I said, or at least thought, I would never do. I have learned to never say never, because there’s a pretty good chance if I say I will “never” do something, He may show me that I was wrong and I will do that very thing, in His time. I swore I would never ride my own bike, yet here I am.

What if we do not follow what we feel He wants us to do? If I hadn’t followed His lead and started riding or writing, you wouldn’t be reading this right now. That means you would be doing something else with this time, what would that be? We don’t know, but we can assume this is where we’re meant to be right now for whatever reason. I was recently told, “Sometimes I think you know me too well.” If we stop and think about that, there may be things about us that we don’t want others to know for whatever reason. The fact remains, however, that God knows everything there is to know about us. He knows what he have done and thought and what we will do and think  in the future. Nothing is hidden from Him.