In the name of God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Have
things ever not gone as you had planned? You prepared and practiced for the
interview and wore your best outfit, but you didn’t get the job. You planned
the perfect surprise party and had wonderful decorations ready, and then the
rain came and washed it all away. You had been trying for years to get pregnant
and it seemed like a miracle when the test was positive, and then there was a
miscarriage. You kept the feuding family members apart and were ready to change
the topic if it got heated, and still everyone will remember that family dinner
because of the fight. You did everything you knew to do to teach your child
about responsibility and making good decisions, and yet they ended up in jail.
You tried every treatment and prayed every prayer, and your loved one still
died. You studied hard and did every extracurricular activity you could manage,
and you still got a rejection letter from your dream college. You loved your
spouse and poured all of yourself into the relationship, but the marriage didn’t
last. You prepared the soil, watered the seeds, pulled the weeds, but there
just wasn’t any fruit on the vine. Sometimes, no matter how deeply your heart
is invested in something, no matter how righteous your motives, no matter how
hard you’ve worked, no matter how often you’ve prayed, things just don’t go as
planned.
