I am a PLANNER. I plan everything. I make lists for everything. The big plan for my life was no different-even 20+ years ago when I was graduating school. I had it all planned out, and then was really disappointed for the better share of 2 decades when life didn’t work out like I planned it. I only recently have come into the plans I made for what should have been my 20’s. And in reality, it is a ‘version’ of my original plan-not the first draft I had come up with.
I have really had to learn to be humble and wait for things to happen according to God’s plan, and to allow them to not be ‘perfect.’ My son Jacob has been my best lesson in understanding that sometimes, beauty, peace and knowledge come from imperfection. I think the God allows imperfection in our lives to make us look at a piece of ourselves. (We usually don’t like to think of ourselves or our lives as less than perfect.) Plans come together for us, whether we like the timing or the details. It’s up to God, not us-we just screw it up anyway!