"open your eyes and take a good look"

Isn't it a bit unnerving/crazy/weird when you begin to see how things keep coming up, and you see the possibility of what your life could be that you NEVER would've come up with on your own? Interesting things are going on, that I think God may be prodding me in a certain direction, and I can look back and see how events/people in my life have brought me to this point.

Sept/Oct 06 issue of Relevant:
"Are you going to seek God, trust that He has a plan (even if it's one you didn't know about), and follow Him? Or are you going to keep your head down and try to keep life how it is, completely missing something He might've been trying to talk to you about?" (14)

"Learn what it means to love broken people. Don't turn away from the things you don't understand....Don Miller writes in Blue Like Jazz that "something was broken in the world and we were supposed to hold our palms against the wound." That's it. We're called to stop the bleeding. We're called to change the world." (28, twloha.com)

23-24 "It's who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That's the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration."

34-35 Jesus said, "The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me, finishing the work he started. As you look around right now, wouldn't you say that in about four months it will be time to harvest? Well, I'm telling you to open your eyes and take a good look at what's right in front of you. These Samaritan fields are ripe. It's harvest time!