What do you do when your plans are totally thrown out the window? Do you shut down and refuse to go forward? Do you never plan anything to begin with so you don't even notice? Do you adapt and find a new way to start moving again to where you were originally headed? Some days (or weeks or months or maybe even years) don't go according to how we envisioned them at the start. A day that is turned upside down because of a meltdown by one of your kids or a flat tire or an unexpected snowstorm happens to all of us. Usually they are annoying at worst, but not really any long term damage, a hiccup to your day. But how do you handle the major detours in life... a job that ceases to exist, a test that comes back that your doctor wants to take a little closer look at, a relationship that just ends? What do you do then? Do you have to be the one in control?
We seem to fool ourselves a lot of the time. We think we have our lives managed and going according to our plans. What if our plans aren't really where we are headed? What if the place you are at now is where you are meant to stay and you had plans to move forward? What if the way you see things playing out isn't close to the way God has planned? How loosely do you hold on to your plan and realize that there may be a different plan coming that you hadn't anticipated? Are you flexible? Can you be wrong? I know some people who are so sure of everything (well at least that it is how it appears), but I wonder what happens when things change for them.
Change is inevitable. So what are going to do with the unexpected today?
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