"Dodging bullets"

Wow.  Do you ever have to just THANK THE LORD for not giving you your way sometimes? I mean, just think about one time (or many) where He may not have allowed you to get a job you really wanted, to date a person you really desired, or to get some place you really wanted to go.  Now think about the path having that thing would have led you down.  We always like to think that we would have been richer, happier, or just plain better off because of it, but that is so not necessarily true.  That dream job that you applied to and so DESPERATELY needed to have two years ago that would have been the end to your money problems forever?  That company just decided to lay off every new employee they hired since, get this, two years ago.  That person who would have made the PERFECT boyfriend/girlfriend?  Just cheated on their current love.  That place you didn't make it to because you got lost/was running late/accident on the road kept you from making it?  There was just a shooting there.  Some people may call all of these instances "dodging a bullet" or a "coincidence", but really it is so much more than that.

God sees the future (not to mention the past and present).  We see the present and what our future could POTENTIALLY look like, but God sees what it IS and what it can/will be.  So praise those moments that do not come into fruition, because sometimes, most of the time, it is because God is choosing to bless us with a better course of events in our lives.