His plans are better, and His ways are higher.
As a young girl, I dreamed about life. I created a time line. I had it all planned and figured out. I was going to be married by age 20, have three children by 24, live in a huge house with land, and own a Jeep Wrangler with four wheel drive. Here I am, at the ripe old age of 27. I married at 26, and we have zero children. We don't even have a dog... not even a fish, and I drive a sedan. And I'm as happy as I ever could be. I love this life God has so graciously given me! Before the school year starts and life gets incredibly busy, I decided to wipe down ceiling fans and baseboards. These two jobs are pretty tedious. Getting up and down from a stool and letting dust fly in my face isn't my favorite. I'm not incredibly thrilled about traveling the house on my knees either, but I DO thoroughly enjoy a clean home. So there I am, cleaning baseboards and thanking God for our cute little home. I remembered how the baseboards were an attractive feature to me, and at that moment I didn't find them terribly attractive. I was, however, finding myself thanking God that it didn't really take me long. Why? Because we don't have the ridiculous house I dreamed of. (When I say ridiculous, what I dreamed of was essentially a castle, but there was a butler and maid involved. Clearly I watched too many fairy tales as a child.) There are so many moments in life I can look back and see how God worked. So many times things didn't turn out the way I wanted, and in that moment, I wasn't happy, but praise God He makes all things beautiful. I'm so thankful for His timeline. I'm so thankful for His desires. I'm so thankful for His sovereignty. I'm so thankful for a joy filled home. I'm so thankful for a thoughtful God Who knows me better than I know myself. Thank You Lord for a beautiful life, the husband I never even knew could exist, our darling home, everything between, and all that is to come! Thank You God for laying Your plan out and gently guiding me through it. I'm so thankful for life on earth with You, and I can't wait for the day I get to praise You for all eternity. Isa 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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