Life doesn’t go according to the plans we make for it. Life’s very disagreeable that way. We tell our lives “go left here,” and instead it goes right. It’s a curious thing, and it can be an enraging thing. When I have a particular idea of how my life should go, and it doesn’t happen, my first reaction definitely isn’t to say, “This is wonderful.” Often I feel blindsided by the difference between my plans for my life and the real events in my life. We are planners, some of us more than others, but we all have internal expectations for our lives. If you’re at all like me, when work and family and relationships arent what I expect or are harder than I anticipate, I feel cheated by life and sometimes let down by God. To be totally honest, my plans for my life didn’t include me still being single right now, moving 3 times in the past 3 years, moving 1000 miles from my closest friend, or for that matter, ever experiencing hardship or suffering consesquences when I make any bad decisions. You may feel very similar in your relationships, marriages, families and jobs.

BUT…the last 7 years of my life have been the best so far. The last 7 years of my life have been the years that I have chosen to TRUST God’s promise that he knows the plans he has for me. When I began to trust my life to God, my life didn’t immediately align with my expectations, nor has it to this day, but instead my life got good. A soul satisfying good that leaves me feeling free and taken care of all the time. The type of good where the amazing, wonderful things I’ve experienced so far outweigh the bad that those bad things become only a foggy memory. There was a saying I heard a lot in college as a Missions Major, “The safest place to be is the center of God’s will.” The more we align our lives with God’s will the more we can trust that our lives, while unexpected and often unplanned, are going to PROSPER.

-Heidi Sandifer

Central Kidz