The Art of Randomness

As I sat down last night looking at the photos I had taken throughout the day, one word came to my mind, "random." At first I was a bit annoyed thinking to myself, "Now how in the world am I going to link these things together for a blog post worth reading?"

As I clicked from photo to photo, however, it dawned on me that although the term "random" generally defines events or things that don't seem to have a place in our lives, in all reality, random is what everything is in our lives at some point.

It's how we place those random things and events into our lives that makes our lives more colorful, that makes our lives actually worth living and taking notice of.

Wasn't it random that God placed a rainbow in the sky for Noah to remind him of His promise to never destroy the Earth again, and wasn't it also random that God spoke to Moses through a burning bush and gave Him the Ten Commandments to live our lives by, and perhaps most random of all that God  sent His only Son into a world of people who basically believed and lived and acted the same way but who needed a Savior. It was these "random" acts that transformed the world and offered up something more wonderful, something more worth living for. I'm not saying that these acts of God were not planned and thought out or prophesied, but to the people these events happened to, they were random.

 And that's just it. When random things pop into our otherwise homogenized little comfortable ways of living life, it actually allows us to stop, take notice, adjust, realize, appreciate, learn something from, grow, and change, and LIVE the life that we are meant to live, a life that has true meaning, true color, true spirit, a life given from Above, that is blessed and meaningful and that is artfully random.