God doesn't tell us everything. He doesn't show us all the pieces, because He wants us to trust.

God was telling me that, for His purposes, I was not allowed to watch while the stage was being set for the next Act. My job was... to WAIT.

He knew they were hungry and provision had already been made. They didn't need to catch the 153 large fish, but Jesus was trying to make a point. He was proving, yet again, that he was able to meet their needs in impossible circumstances. (They had fished all night and caught nothing.) Now that he had their attention, he had stuff to tell them. I think sometimes God creates moments of crisis in our lives to see if we will turn to Him...

I was stressing over something unimportant, and God showed me an infant perched on his father's mighty arm. His father was making a muscle, and supporting the baby behind its back with his huge hand... The infant was doing a "startle" reflex, CLINGING to his father's mighty arm for dear life, as though it was the baby's job to hang on tight enough not to fall! When really, he could have spread his hands wide, and let go. Because his father was holding him against his chest, f