so, a few years ago joel and benjamin and i took a trip down to san diego for a campus crusade for christ college conference. well, it just so happened that on this trip i only brought enough clean socks for 4 days, but the conference was 5 days. on the last day, the morning when we were to leave for home, i found out i was lacking for a pair of clean socks. now, i know i wear my clothes without washing them quite a few times over, but never socks. so i called over to joel and benjamins room and asked joel (he was my best friend at the time...) if'n i could borrow a pair of clean socks. when joel and benjamin came over to my room to pick me up becuase we were leaving, he handed me a pair of clean socks. not needing them at the time, i thoughtlesly threw them into my backpack and went on my merry little way.
about an hour later we were sitting and eating doughnuts for breakfast, about to catch the tram to the bus station where we would comense forth on the long 8 hour journey home, when it got very cold. san diego on a january morning can be cold, especially when you are sitting still and wearing birkenstock sandles with no socks. so i grabbed my borrowed pair of socks and began putting them on. suddenly it dawned on me... these were not only clean socks, they were new socks. brand new socks. and they were not only new socks, they were extremely white, soft and fluffy. they were in fact, the whitest, softest socks i had ever put on my feet. i was stunned to say the least. i asked joel where he had gotten these amazing socks and he said he had gotten them for christmas from his grandma and he didnt know where she had gotten them from. then i told me i could just keep those socks. it was almost the greatest gift i had ever recieved from joel. but he didnt know where he had gotten the socks.
thus began my long quest to find the socks. i wanted more soft, white fluffy socks... as more time went by i wanted them more and more. you see, even after washing these special socks, they stayed white and soft and fluffy. they never stoped. they just kept being white, soft and fluffy. i searched high and low to find the perfect sock, never prevaling much to my dismay. i simply could not find them. over the course of about a year, i managed to get two more pairs of the same socks from joel (one pair he just handed to me... he told me to close my eyes and hold out my hand. when i did so he put a pair of socks in my hand...) these socks were famouse in my house. i had put a little mark on them, so that no one else would wear them, but they were always on someone elses feet. my sisters stole them whenever they got a chance becuase they knew what i knew... these socks were special. over time i gave up my pursuit of the white fluffy socks. i just couldnt find them. i finally settled for buying the regular, ordinary hanes brand socks. i told myself that they were o.k. socks and that i really shouldnt obsess so much over such a silly thing as socks anyway.
well one night, about a week ago, i was over at my brothers house watching a movie. he was wearing a pair of socks. i happened to look down at the socks for no particular reason at all, and i noticed how white and fluffy and soft they looked. those were the socks! i couldnt belive it! i right away asked him where he had gotten the socks and he told me he had gotten them from costco. the one place i didnt even think of looking! as soon as i got a chance, after work i rushed down to costco. i stormed through the door and marched over to where the socks would be and there they were. my white, soft, fluffy socks. 12 pair for 12 dollars. i grabbed a package and bought them, ecstatic at my good fortune, and forever grateful to my brother who told me where he had bought them and forever grateful to joel who gave me my first pair of soft white fluffy socks.
i am wearing a pair of these socks right now. i love them. they are just so damn white and fluffy. i just felt compeled to write a story about my socks. pretty stupid i know, but im pretty proud of it. i guess though, if that story had to have a point behind it, it would be this : i dont believe God wants us to settle for anything less than his best. also, i dont think he wants us to look for his best. he just wants us to sit back and trust him. he will provide. even in the most unsuspected way and time, God will provide.
peace be in your hearts...
about an hour later we were sitting and eating doughnuts for breakfast, about to catch the tram to the bus station where we would comense forth on the long 8 hour journey home, when it got very cold. san diego on a january morning can be cold, especially when you are sitting still and wearing birkenstock sandles with no socks. so i grabbed my borrowed pair of socks and began putting them on. suddenly it dawned on me... these were not only clean socks, they were new socks. brand new socks. and they were not only new socks, they were extremely white, soft and fluffy. they were in fact, the whitest, softest socks i had ever put on my feet. i was stunned to say the least. i asked joel where he had gotten these amazing socks and he said he had gotten them for christmas from his grandma and he didnt know where she had gotten them from. then i told me i could just keep those socks. it was almost the greatest gift i had ever recieved from joel. but he didnt know where he had gotten the socks.
thus began my long quest to find the socks. i wanted more soft, white fluffy socks... as more time went by i wanted them more and more. you see, even after washing these special socks, they stayed white and soft and fluffy. they never stoped. they just kept being white, soft and fluffy. i searched high and low to find the perfect sock, never prevaling much to my dismay. i simply could not find them. over the course of about a year, i managed to get two more pairs of the same socks from joel (one pair he just handed to me... he told me to close my eyes and hold out my hand. when i did so he put a pair of socks in my hand...) these socks were famouse in my house. i had put a little mark on them, so that no one else would wear them, but they were always on someone elses feet. my sisters stole them whenever they got a chance becuase they knew what i knew... these socks were special. over time i gave up my pursuit of the white fluffy socks. i just couldnt find them. i finally settled for buying the regular, ordinary hanes brand socks. i told myself that they were o.k. socks and that i really shouldnt obsess so much over such a silly thing as socks anyway.
well one night, about a week ago, i was over at my brothers house watching a movie. he was wearing a pair of socks. i happened to look down at the socks for no particular reason at all, and i noticed how white and fluffy and soft they looked. those were the socks! i couldnt belive it! i right away asked him where he had gotten the socks and he told me he had gotten them from costco. the one place i didnt even think of looking! as soon as i got a chance, after work i rushed down to costco. i stormed through the door and marched over to where the socks would be and there they were. my white, soft, fluffy socks. 12 pair for 12 dollars. i grabbed a package and bought them, ecstatic at my good fortune, and forever grateful to my brother who told me where he had bought them and forever grateful to joel who gave me my first pair of soft white fluffy socks.
i am wearing a pair of these socks right now. i love them. they are just so damn white and fluffy. i just felt compeled to write a story about my socks. pretty stupid i know, but im pretty proud of it. i guess though, if that story had to have a point behind it, it would be this : i dont believe God wants us to settle for anything less than his best. also, i dont think he wants us to look for his best. he just wants us to sit back and trust him. he will provide. even in the most unsuspected way and time, God will provide.
peace be in your hearts...
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