Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I admit that I don't really know the true story of St. Patrick. I only know that he returned to Ireland, where he once lived as a slave, eventually driving away the old religion (the "snakes" that everyone refers to) to establish Christianity. The interesting thing is that God placed him in the circumstance that he needed to be in to learn about Druidic traditions (his slavemaster was a Druid priest (?)) and know the language perfectly. Patrick needed to be in that place of misery to better learn and communicate to a people who needed to know God.
I recently read another Dean Koontz book where it describes the interconnectedness of everyone on this planet, and the influences someone can effect without ever knowing it. In the book, whenever someone made a less worthy choice in life, that choice spawned another universe-that-could-have-been-and-at-the-same-time-does-exist, causing a multiplicity of universes. To sum up that epic of a book would be insufficient in a few fleeting sentences, but I say all that because I have been encountering a theme recently where I've been made to realize that every choice I make needs to be the best choice made within the center of God's will. I am living within a minute instance within the span of my life and of God's whole creation, and even though I don't know that end result right now, and may never know this side of heaven, I know that God is working all things for good. I just need to remember that investing in people/relationships is to show the true religion of service that God intended for me to accomplish; to live as a little Christ in this the best of all possible worlds.
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." James 1:27