My plan vs. God’s plan (discussion)
I know that there are times I still wonder why all the things I have gone through didn’t work out according to “my plan” but yet I also know that all these things (good and bad) have made me who I am today. Each event (divorce, deaths of relatives, etc..) have put me in a situation that isn’t comfortable and definitely weren’t a part of my plan…but yet here I am – alive and well – and have learned that even if I screw up I still have friends that love and will be there. I was able to come back to LSC (I had not attended in a couple of years) and feel welcomed in spite of my history – MOST PEOPLE AT LSC KNEW WHO I WAS AND WHAT THE LAST FEW YEARS HAD BEEN FOR ME! And now that I’m involved in LSC, I also have a church family that is “connected” with me and that is such a comfort for me.
I now know things will not always be “great” but I also know now I will get through them and have people who will walk through these situations with me…
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Miranda said
I like it when my plan and God’s are the same. That’s always fun. But on that *rare* occasion that we differ in our plans for me (haha), I find it comforting that God knows what I want and need much better than I think I know. He’s also much better at the timing. For example, if I had been pregnant when I wanted to be, I would not have been able to undergo chemo…God just knows.
Lorinda said
My plan vs. God’s plan. Boy am I glad that He is the one in control. My husband and I had been trying for several years to get pregnant and even with fertility treatments could not. We had decided to stop trying and we took a group of youth from our church to a conference in Colorado. When we got back,right before Thanksgiving, we found out we were pregnant. 19 weeks later, as we were leaving for a bible study group in Elkhart, my water broke and 23 hours later we had a beautiful daughter who was way to small to make it in this world. Several weeks later we were sitting at Ryan’s eating dinner talking about what to do next, and deciding to try the fertility stuff again-i was 37 yo and knew it would take alot with our history. When we got home there was a message on our machine from some friends of ours who wanted us to call-asap. We called them and they said that the little boy they were foster was going to come up for adoption and they knew that God was telling them that we were to be his parents. We took the classes to become foster parents but due to things beyond our control, we were not allowed to adopt him. Our friends ended up adopting him. We have since adopted 3 gorgous little girls. We would not have done that if our daughter had lived. She is with the Lord in heaven and we know we will see her when we die. Now she has 3 more sisters to meet also. Talk about totally different plans. We wouldn’t have planned this but I can’t imagine our lives any other way. Amen
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