I'm Facebook friends with God.

The other day, I updated my status on Facebook to this:

I've been praying about so many things, but one very specific thing was about a mission trip.  I've prayed about whether it is even the right thing to do, if the timing was right...  And if it is right, and if now is the time, how in the world would I pay for it?    Another thing I've bee praying about is a little more abstract -- more undefined, but I've been praying about finding joy, being grateful for each day, and figuring out how to be happy. I've asked God to help me with the process of regaining balance in my life, reordering my priorities, and figuring out what really makes me happy.   The prayers have been ongoing, but both these topics had been on my mind heavily at the beginning of the year, when I was thinking about resolutions. I wrote my a post here at the Toilet Water, Hope and Resolutions for 2012. 

I finished writing that blog entry, and posted it, and spent some time in cconcentrated prayer.  The next morning, I opened up FB, , two posts caught my attention.   There was a FB post regarding a contest for WINNING the opportunity to go on the VERY trip that I had hoped to go on. Wow.   My mind started working. I was recruiting friends, and planning visits to other churches, and writing emails in my head, and, mentally writing a plan to win the contest...  I felt like God had shown me the way.

Moments later, I read this quote posted by a friend: 

“I’d always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed.  I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.” -Dan Millman

This quote seemed to be so relevant to my quest for joy -- reminding me that it was up to me to live a joyous life, not for a joyous life to just happen.  I felt like I had received a message.

So I updated my status... "I think God is speaking to me through FB.".  

I guess the real question is:  When you pray for something, and then something REALLY relevant pops up, what we might call coincidence, is it random chance, or is it God?  Hmm.  Einstein apparently thought it was God.  He said "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.".