Hearts of Christian HomeKeepers™

It doesn’t take much to remind us of our age. Like throwing a baseball with your young son on a warm spring day and waking up the next morning so sore you can hardly raise your arm. But other things remind us of not just our physical age. Instead they remind us of our level of maturity, accomplishment and just where we are in God’s great plan.

Recently, I joined the social network site of Face Book. I included my maiden name in my profile and before I knew it I had friends from high school and college (ahmmm, some 20 something years ago) contacting me with warm greetings, eager to hear where I was and what I was doing these days. While it has been so fun catching up with old friends, it has made me stop and think about the road I have traveled in those twenty plus years. I’m not the same girl I was back then. When I left that stage after the graduation ceremony, I was on my way. Not sure where, but it was Plan A. Now, I think I’m on about Plan D,E or F. I sort of lost track. But one thing I know for sure, it has been God’s plan all along.

Over time and experience, our goals and ideas change. Sometimes things don’t work out like we want. I know Mr. Right showed up about 10 years later than I had him scheduled to and I was not ready to stop after having just one baby. But the body was. I was supposed to finish law school but that didn’t happen. I was supposed to live in Boston. Well, Drummond, OK is a long commute from Bean Town. But even though my dreams at 18 and 21 or even 30 are not the ones I’m living today, the dreams of today are the ones I cherish and embrace. I heard an old saying once that “If you want to hear God laugh, just make a plan.” How true, how true.

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