Disclaimer: If you have ever or are currently sporting a mullet, please do not be offended by me or anything in this post. I respect your confidence, individuality, and sense of style.
So I have this love for mullets--the haircut, not the fish. I think they are wonderful. How can you see a mullet and not at least smile? The proper reaction, in my opinion, is to laugh--not loudly or offensively. But let's be honest, mullets are pretty funny. I usually take pictures of them anywhere I see one and can get a picture. My friends also take pictures of them for me because they are, well, just amazing. Okay so with that said, here's a story of how God managed to use this little quirk I have for His glory.
On Tuesday morning before going to Rajesh and Susheela's I was praying earnestly for our time with them and for wisdom in direction for ministry, etc. when randomly the thought came to mind that it's been a really long time since I've seen a mullet here. I used to see them all the time, and I would just tell God, "Thank You," smile, click a pic if there was time, and keep going. I have no idea what made me think of this while I was praying a heartfelt prayer, other than a heartfelt desire to see a mullet, so I just prayed and said, "God I'd love to see a mullet sometime if You've got one. Okay, moving on to more important things..." That afternoon as we were leaving Rajesh and Susheela's and walking to get on the ferry, there was a man with a legit mullet wearing a light green shirt right in front of me. (Green just so happens to be my favorite color.) :) It caught me so off guard, I laughed and said, "Wow, God has a funny sense of humor." My supervisor was walking beside me and had been telling me a story when I interrupted him with my little outburst. So I had to tell him the story, and I felt really ridiculous for admitting to having prayed for something as silly as seeing a mullet. However, at the time, I was completely overcome by how incredibly generous it was of God to place that man right in front of me at the end of the day as if to say, "I hear you. I love you. You are exactly where I want you to be." I said, "Thank You!! You didn't have to go all out with the green shirt, but I appreciate it."
Fast-forward to last night (Friday night). There is a couple on our team that live about 10 minutes from us, and the wife is a nurse. I needed to get a vitamin B12 shot and had already put it off for a week. So I finally went last night to get the shot, which then lead to us eating a delicious dinner together, which of course turned into us talking and sharing stories. I was talking about all that God has been teaching me about joy and thankfulness through the books One Thousand Gifts and Desiring God. So I told them about the mullet story from Tuesday evening. We all laughed. Then the wife shared about how she loves birds and prayed when she first moved here about how she only sees pigeons and crows in the city. Since then every morning at the window where she does her quiet time two little chickadees come and sit. Only He can orchestrate these things. More than that, only a loving, ever-Present, detailed God would/could show love to His children in such personal ways.
Anyway, moving on, tonight the wife of that couple called to tell me about something funny that happened today. So today this couple was walking along leaving someone's house when the wife notices a guy walking towards them with a mullet. She had them on her mind because of our conversation last night. So she turned to her husband and said, "Don't make a big scene, but turn and look at that guy. He's got a mullet!"
Her husband turns and sees the guy and yells, "Raju*!!!" As it turns out her husband has been looking for this guy since February and hasn't been able to find him for all these months!
As she was telling me this, I kept thinking that I cannot believe God would use something so silly and ridiculous to bring glory to His name. Sometimes because I see God as being so big and so much higher and wiser than me, I think that the things I consider "small" or "silly" He just looks over because He's a big God concerned with big matters. I tend to think that He doesn't care about or have time for the little stuff. However, He uses it all for His glory. He uses our quirks and our weaknesses and our strengths and our inabilities and our abilities...ALL of it for His glory and our good. Because He is such a big God, tiny details don't hold him up or fluster Him. He is infinite. He has time for it all. And He has the wisdom to use it all. Glory be to God!
"Charge them...to set their hopes...on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy." (1 Timothy 6:17)
*name changed for privacy
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