The Best Laid Plans

Hope you all have enjoyed a long Memorial Day weekend!  I spent most of it at the lake relaxing with friends and family.  It felt so great to get away.  I laughed a lot this weekend and made many sweet memories.  Sometimes I am so awe-struck that even in this earthly life we get to experience such joy.  I am so grateful. 

Today on Baby Bangs, Amanda Jones wrote a great post about how fragile our calendars are.  Instead of a week-long trip to Israel with her mom (Beth Moore), sister and Living Proof Ministry volunteers, Amanda ended up in Oklahoma at her husband's grandmother's funeral.  She was not complaining about any of it, but it did cause her to think and share this:

Then the question comes. Who exactly wounded me? No one. This was no one's fault. But God ordained it. And why? Is He trying to tell me something? Is He mad at me? Is He trying to show me how little control I really have over my life?

I don't know the answers but whatever lesson I'm supposed to be learning, I want to learn it. Not just learn it, but graduate summa cum laude, walk the stage with an honor sash around my neck, and be done with it. This paragraph alone shows my maturity, doesn't it?

I need His grace.

 

Many are the plans in a man's heart,

but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.

Proverbs 19:21

 

I really liked her wanting to learn this lesson and graduate summa cum laude.  Such honesty.  I needed that reminder today about how fragile our plans are. It's so easy for me to plan out my future.  In fact, I already have it planned out in my head.  Ha.  I've been asking myself lately, though, what are the odds that it will really work out that way?  I have to remind myself that God's plans are so much bigger and better than mine. 

 

So I hope this encourages you today, to trust in the One who knows every hair on our head and has every one of our days mapped out.