Its amazing how much God can speak to you through a sunrise, or lack there of. Yesterday I got up early and decided that I was going to watch the sunrise with Jesus. But instead of a beautiful sunrise filling the sky with brilliant colors, it was a cold, cloudy morning. Though it wasn't absolutely beautiful and breath-taking, it was truly what I needed that morning. Sometimes we make plans and feel like they going to glorify God, and maybe those things could glorify him, but the question is whether or not it is the best way we can glorify him.
Today I was reading in a book I love and was really challenged and encouraged.

If I hold spiritual blessings or friendship for myself they will corrupt me, no matter how beautiful they are. I have to pour them out before the Lord, give them to Him in my mind, though it looks as if I am wasting them, even as David poured the water out on the sand, to be instantly sucked up.

-Elisabeth Elliot(Passion and Purity)(quoting Oswald Chambers)

Steadfastness, that is holding on;

patience, that is holding back;

expectancy, that is holding the face up;

obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do;

listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.

How long, Lord, must I wait?

Never mind, child. Trust me.

(same book)(quoting S.D. Gordon)

I have been trying to do things in my own timing recently, thinking I knew what was best. But God is really showing me that His ways are good and perfect and definitely don't need my assistance. I need only follow in obedience and trust Him as I go.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart;

and do not lean on your own understanding.

In all of your ways acknowledge him

and he will direct your path.

Be not wise in your own eyes...

Proverbs 3:5-7