My life is not going according to plan.
At least, not according to my plan.
Yet it is going according to God’s plan -and thus - Life is Good.
Work is going well. I really enjoy it. I’m learning a lot and getting to experience new things all the time. I love the opportunities that Next Adventure gives me.
My family is doing well and I am looking forward to my older brothers wedding to his wonderful fiance.
My friends are mostly away at college or working but settled into their lives and no one seems to be hating it as far as I can tell.
My girlfriend is enjoying school, just spent a week with my Uncle, Aunt and Cousins in Spokane and will be home in a week.
So yes… life is good.
In fact, I am almost fully at peace with life right now. Some other things recently happened that I won’t go into detail about but that I am very thankful for. I am truly blessed by God. Life is a lot better than I could have expected it to be at this point and it’s all because of him. If it had all been up to me right now would definitely not be going how it is now.
In other words, life would be worse off. For exampe…work… if it had gone my way I would have had a job at the beginning of summer. If that had happened I probably would have saved enough money to have visited Europe and would have arrived home from Europe a few weeks ago. This would have been great, but I probably would not have gotten this amazing job at Next Adventure, I would have no money and I don’t know how Annie and my relationship would be right now.
Now that is just one example of how life is better off because of God’s planning and not mine. There are other plans that I had a few years ago that did not happen, but that I now see are better because of it, and I am thankful for that.
So looking at my life now I am thankful for where I am. Life is good, and though I wish for things that are yet to come, I realize that God has a plan that is better than my own plan. Though I would love to be with my girlfriend (rather than all the way across the state), or have a lot of money, or whatever, I realize that all in God’s timing it will work out for the best. If I had followed Annie to WSU I probably would not be very happy right now, just like if I had gotten at job at the beginning of summer I would not have gotten this job now. So with that said, I am saying this.
Jesus I trust you with my future. Thank you for all you’ve given me and provided me with. I pray that I will continue to be thankful for all you’ve done for me and can show that by loving others as you have loved me. I also pray that you will give other friends and family in my life a thankfulness and peace about where they are in life right now too.
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.”
