What Do You Want?

Life is full of disappointments. When God doesn’t do what we want, it’s not easy. Never has been…never will be. But faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and God will do what is right, not what we want. We also know that God will get us through our disappointments. I recall the story of the man who went to a pet store in search of a singing parrot. It seems he was a bachelor and his house was much too quiet. The store owner had just the bird for him, so the man bought it. The next day the bachelor came home from work to a house full of music. He went to the cage to feed the bird and noticed for the first time that the parrot had only one leg. He felt cheated that he had been sold a one-legged bird, so he called to complain. “What do you want,” the store owner replied, “a bird who can sing or a bird who can dance?” Good question for times of disappointment. Now, think for just a moment, what is it you want and how is God meeting those wants?