Order?

I traversed this intersection in India on foot and lived to tell about it.

For someone who loves order and systems and things that all work together, India challenged every fiber of me. The funny thing is that there really is order to this seemingly chaotic mess.

Pedestrians yield to bicycles,
bicycles yield to motorcycles,
motorcycles yield to cars...then the size of car matters too,
cars yield to trucks.
Everyone yields to cows and the oxcart just takes its place somewhere in all this.

For some reason what appears to us to be chaotic here actually does have order. This can be true in any situation – what may appear as chaotic or dis-orderly, really may have order…I just can’t see it.

India is a good reminder to me to look beyond what is in front of me and patiently try to understand. It is also a reminder to pray and trust in God's protection and direction through any intersection in life.