Some Things I Just Can't Understand

I received this package in the mail yesterday:

 

I wondered what was inside, as I wasn't expecting anything that would come in such a large box.  When I opened the box, this is what I saw:

 

 

 

Layers and layers of bubble wrap, all very carefully packed by Subhas Patel, whoever he or she may be.

 

As I dug deeper, this is what I found:

This is one of those books I receive from time to time, free of charge, in exchange for my honest review.  I'll read it and review it later.  That's for another day.  Today, I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why a paperback book, less than an inch thick, weighing only a few ounces, needed to be packed in a box 11" by 14" and 6" deep.

It's one of many things in life that I just can't understand.  And the longer I live, the more things I find that make no sense to me.

A few examples:

Why does your hair always look great on the day before you have an appointment to get it cut?

Why does your car never make that funny noise when you take it to the mechanic, but makes it again as soon as you are on your way back home?

Why is the hem out of all my pants at the same time?  Yep.  Every single pair.  All at the same time.

Why people don't like coffee.

How a person whose convictions are solidly pro-life can support a candidate who does not have that same conviction.

Why people don't listen.  And why they don't think.  And why they are so easily swayed by sound bites and rhetoric.

Why some people get cancer and others don't.  Why some people get Alzheimer's and others don't.

Why people text when they are driving.  Is that message really so important that it's worth their life?  Or someone else's life?

Just a few of the things I don't understand.

Yet in the midst of all the things in life I don't understand, I understand this truth:  God is in control.  I may not always understand circumstances and events in my life and in the world around me, but of this I am sure.

God is in control. 

"And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose."  (Romans 8:28)