How often I forget that statement. You could say that today was a day filled with coincidences and chance, and that the universe was perfectly aligned for my benefit--but 1)I don't deserve for ANYTHING to be aligned for my benefit, and 2) the older that I get, I realize even more that believing in the fate of "chance" not only takes a jab at God's perfectly planned blueprint of life, but it lessens the enormity of the fact that He IS sovereign. He is. And thank...well..GOD that He is sovereign, because what a mess life would be if that were not true.

What a mess I am, imperfect, impure, and unworthy..and still You take perfect care of me. I love you so much, Lord. SO MUCH.

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. – Romans 1:20

This verse reminds me of my philosophy class and the ongoing debate of God verse science. It's never been that way for me. Science can only exist because God exists and has always existed and engineered the world so perfectly. If we are made in God's image, and he made scientists, engineers, etc..then how can they "prove" to themselves that there is no God..they think they outsmarted him with their scientific findings? Don't they realize that anything they could possibly discover or invent is only because God made them that way? Everything is too perfectly engineered to be "by chance" or purely science.

Yes, that was the name of the magazine article I read the other day about the hardships of older people that are diagnosed with incurable or hard to treat illnesses. I won't get into the complete story, but the main synopsis is that an "acceptable" solution is becoming divorce for these couples. The article centered itself around a man and a wife where the husband was diagnosed with dementia. They were not wealthy, and since "continuing to pay for treatment would eventually put her (the wife) on the street, divorce was the best option." They were married for 44 years. Nothing disturbs me more than reading stuff like this. They didn't even write this as if it were a terrible thing. The best way you can express your love to someone is by loving them THROUGH the hard times, through their sickness, through their expensive disease or illness treatments. You could not pay me an INFINITE amount of money to walk away from Chris, and we aren't even married yet. What if my dad just walked out on my mom when she had her breast cancer, or if she walked out on his heart disease..it makes me sick to think about. For anyone out there that thinks this is okay, I hope that in your vows on your wedding day you will leave out "in SICKNESS and in health, until DEATH do us part," because i'm getting sick and tired of hearing that divorce is okay, not a big deal, and perfectly acceptable. Cases of infidelity with no chance for recovery is the ONLY way this should even become an option. And only an option after every thing else was attempted to recover the marriage. Our generation better start changing this terrible divorce rate. Your wedding day is not a celebration of your love at that moment. It is a public declaration, contract, and PROMISE in front of everyone there and God that you will be loving, caring for, and supporting that person 5, 10, 20, 50 years from that second. Until DEATH separates you. UGH.