Decisions

Two things happened to me on Sunday morning. Both of them happened directly after mass. One was very small, and really had nothing extraordinary about it at all. The second event was incredibly surprising; something that was entirely interconnected with the first. Neither of them would have happened if I hadn’t made those previous and very small decisions. Little decisions that I never looked back at or really even thought about at all when making them.

The decision-making started the night before, when I decided to watch a suspenseful movie with my parents. It wasn’t all that scary, but I had moved my bed around recently, therefore uncovering my OCD-ness, and I haven’t been sleeping well anyways. The movie didn’t help all that much. It was a great movie, but a little thing happened in it that had to do with a bed. Therefore I couldn’t sleep. I decided to read Sense and Sensibility, which made me crave the movie. My mom was awake, unable to sleep either, so we decided to watch it. Which made us stay up late.
The next morning was Sunday, and since we stayed up late, we woke up late – naturally.

So, it takes my mom a great while to get ready for church. My dad and I were ready in about 10 minutes, and she had just gotten out of the shower. She told us to go ahead, come back straight afterwords, and she’ll take the car to the later mass. After mass, I wanted to talk with friends, so I made another decision – to ride home with my grandma, instead of my dad, so I could chat a bit.

While chatting, we made these slight and last minute decisions to take these random turns around the church. That’s when I saw my grandma and uncle, talking with my friend’s mother (who could very well be my mother) and they were talking to these two people from my church.

This is where the little events took place.
-I was greeted in a way I have never been before.
-I was introduced to someone, and I had a feeling that they will change my life forever.
I just don’t know how.

I feel as if… if I hadn’t made the decision to watch the movies, my mother and I would have woken up in time, I wouldn’t have decided to ride with my grandmother, I wouldn’t have run up to her after church, and I wouldn’t have met these people.
Have you ever made a decision, just a simple one… but after it leading to an event that never could have happen without that decision- you realize that your life isn’t going to be the same…

Tip: Trust God – He works in the most amazing and unexpected ways imaginable.