Unplanned Plan
Jeremiah 29: 11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." NIV As I go about my duties as a house wife, sweeping and mopping floors, wading through piles of laundry, and contemplating what to feed the family for dinner, I am struck with a thought. It is a thought that has come to me before and one that always gives me a moment of pause: this is not the life I planned for myself. Some may say this is a negative as many lament for the life they wish they had but for me it a more of a revelation. A silent praise to God for his Wisdom. Thinking back to a time when I was a younger, far more naive girl, I can remember the plans I had for myself. These plans were ill conceived and ill carried out. My first dreams never included children or even a husband. They were plans of being a free spirited women, independent and not in need of anyone else. I first dreamed of be