My Plans, Your Plans, His Plans - Whose Plan will you follow?

So? What do you think of our new look?

Yip. We got fancy smanchy now. I figured if I ws going to do this newsletter thing, I should do it up right. Since we got a new design, we have now graduated to Volume 2. Wow! Volume 2 already?

When I first started this, it was a joke, but with all the postive feedback I'm starting to think, it's a pretty cool idea. So, I'll keep 'em coming as long as you keep readin'. Deal? OK. Now on with it...

We are almost in a new year, so I have been getting myself ready, trying to make plans for the GREAT 2008! Been working on organization, strategy development, revising the "5 year plan", etc. And, I thought I had it all figured out. Then this week, I was caught off guard (in a good way) and it blew my preconceived ideas completely out of the water.

Have you ever walked into a meeting, a party, or an event and had a plan for how things were going to go, then by the time you walk out you find yourself saying, "What just happened in there?". Well, that's what happened to me this week and it had me "in a funk" for the rest of that day. Not because it was a bad thing, but because it was so "the complete opposite" of what I had anticipated (or planned).

So, my thing is this - yes we should plan ahead, make preparation, and think about the future, but in doing this, we should also remain flexible. God's plans always supersede our own and He will find a way to show us the path, if we pay attention and listen. Sometimes, this may result in our own "script" being over-written and replaced with HIS. If we are open though, we will realize that His plans are always better than our own. So, as you make your plans for the GREAT '08, keep our Word to the Wise near your heart.

Today I Learned that when I think I have it all figured out, something happens to show me I don't.

Word to the Wise: "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." Proverbs 19:21

Copyright Krista L. Abbott, December 2007. All Rights Reserved.