Plans for Life

My Plan for your life is unfolding before you. Sometimes the road you are traveling seems blocked, or it opens up so painfully slowly that you must hold yourself back. Then, when time is right, the way before you suddenly clears – through no effort of your own. What you have longed for and worked for I present to you freely as pure gift. You feel awed by the ease with which I operate in the world, and you glimpse My Power and My Glory.

Do not fear your weakness, for it is the stage on which My Power and Glory perform most brilliantly. As you persevere along the path I have prepared for you, depending on My strength to sustain you, expect to see miracles – and you will. Miracles are not always visible to the naked eye, but those who live by faithLiving by faith, rather than sight, enables you to see My Glory. can see them clearly.

Written by Sarah Young, Jesus Calling

I saw this on a friend's blog recently, so I decided to re-post it on my own blog. I just read it over and over and over - I love it! And it's so true. There have been MANY times in my life - mostly my late 20's - where I have been waiting (IMpatiently), wondering when my ship was going to come in, when good things were going to come my way, when the pain from a divorce was going to stop, when I was going to feel like I truly belong somewhere again.

When I was in Ohio, I would send out resumes for jobs in Texas throughout the whole time I was in Toledo after my divorce.....and heard nothing or very little. I never gave up hope that I would get there someday, but my faith wore so thin at times.

I watched as friends of mine got married, had babies, started new jobs, moved to new places, went on fabulous vacations with their families, etc. All the while, I was wondering what I did that was so bad to deserve the isolation, loneliness and despair that I felt inside. There were many days that I really felt that God forgot about me or just gave up on me and moved on to everyone else to pour blessings on.

But just like the "Footprints" poem says, when I felt most alone and abandoned, it was then that God was carrying me. He had something BIG in store for me, but he needed some time to get it just right before he revealed it to me.

Then, when the time was right, Allison introduced me to her cousin Tammy in Dallas/Fort Worth and I found my job - my ticket to Texas! It was all lining up! And then the house drama started - I moved across the country with clothes and a dog with no place to live! WHAT?!

Teresa and I looked at house after house after house and none were the right one. I felt like Goldilocks, except for the bowl of porridge that was "just right" wasn't presenting itself! But sure enough, the 2nd to last house that we looked at (before I was going to break down and just rent for 6 months) was THE ONE!

God clearly had a plan all along - I was just not patient and faithful enough to find peace in that plan at the time. Hindsight is always 20/20 and i can see it all unfolded now, but I certainly didn't see it at the time.

Looking at all of that in hindsight gives me the skills and knowledge that I need in order to trust that God REALLY DOES have a plan when I'm going through a rough patch in my life, if I just have faith. He always turns struggles into something GOOD!!