The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Men…
Often Go Awry.
“Has someone seen the life I planned?
It seems it’s been misplaced
I’ve looked in every corner
It’s lost without a trace…”
~ Beth Moore~
From the poem: “The Life I Planned “
Do things always turn out the way we plan? I don’t think so.
I dreamed a lot when I was younger of finding love and having the perfect kids. Is it anything like I thought? Yes and no.
It’s tons of more work than I ever dreamed, and extremely challenging most days. Many times those I love bring out the worst in me. Why? I haven’t totally figured that out yet.
Maybe it has something to do with this quote. Maybe growing up in dysfunction made me have unrealistically high expectations about motherhood and marriage. I didn’t really have great examples of either to follow in my life, so I made up my own idealistic view of what each should look like. The reality is, it looks nothing like what I had planned it would be.
But the good news is God can make it even better than I imagined! So as I plug along doing the best I can at this season in my life, I’m trying hard not to plan my future. Because in the end, God is the one who orders my steps. All I have to do is follow where He leads.
