I found myself sitting in the grass on a hill overlooking a sea of different shades of green throughout the fields and trees. I was watching the sunlight change through the leaves as the wind softly blew them back and forth changing the pattern of the shadows on the ground.
On the outside it was a beautiful day and there were many reasons to smile at everything in front of me. However, in my mind it was gray and a little sad. I felt lost and was wondering if my purpose was meant for more.
I looked around at everything I have and in my heart I know I am blessed and I know I have more than most people. I was thinking and asking myself about what I could do to be more important, to do more things, to be better? I got nowhere questioning myself so I decided to ask the expert.
I asked God, “why do I feel like I need to be more?” I asked, “what should I do?” As I waited for an answer I looked to my right and nestled in the grass beside me was a four leaf clover.
Feeling a little better I picked it which made me happy for the moment but as I looked at it in front of me my eyes started to look past the clover in my hand and I began looking for more. After all, why not look for more while I’m waiting on God to answer my questions.
Then I realized, the four leaf clover was my answer. God gives us so much that is right in front of us and we tend to overlook our blessings because we’re already looking for the next big thing to happen. We’re so busy chasing after the “new thing” that we forget to stop and appreciate what we already have.
The sun warmed my skin but with knowing I’m enough for God just as I am, he warmed my soul. It’s not in the big events or decisions that make us who we are but in the small moments of everyday life.
If God made the rarity of a four leaf clover 1 in 10,000, imagine the thought and detail he put into the rarity of each of us.Â
Be thankful for what you have and know that through Jesus, you are enough in God’s eyes. You are so special that God made only one you.
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you."
Psalms 139:13-18 NIV