"There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

When You've Made Plans But...




I know that He has done this several times and a lot of these have gone unnoticed. Thank you Heavenly Father for still being patient with me and looking after my own good when I had been so absorbed in all my hopelessly romantic dreams. Just in time, something "unplanned" happens. I wake up from the reverie and I'm reminded that I make plans but in all this mystery, I trust that Yours is better.



End of day. I paused and asked, "What just happened there? Was it my fault or was it all a play of circumstance?" I stood here at the Aldgate bus station waiting for the bus to my flat, and tried to think these through. Then I realised, "He had a hand in this. He --- the one who knows it all, the one who knew what could have been before I even contemplate it." While it was kind of hard and painful to understand given all the things that have happened so far, I respected this sudden change of plans.

I have seen this happen about three years ago in almost the same 'play of circumstance'. The situation was more "wrong" then than what I face now, and yet my judgment was clouded. For someone like me who seems to know what's black from white, I was surprised at how I even tried to gamble in stolen moments of 'grey'. Something had to be moved, the Almighty may have thought. And moved He did! Thanks to Him 'cause now I can look back, relieved and wiser. Hopefully after this too have passed and I've fully moved on, I can do the same. For now, I will listen close and trust His wisdom. 



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