"It's all part of a bigger plan"
If you're like me, when you're working through issues or struggling through hard times, when someone tells you this, all you really want to do is give them a nice, big, *PUNCH* in the face. I mean, what do they really know about what you're actually going through right now?
Instead, you smile, nod your head, and say, "Yeah, I hope so."
Later, you start to wonder about this "bigger plan" everyone is telling you about. You sit there for hours trying to figure it out, thinking through every plausible situation, every different ending, get mad, and ask yourself "Why do things have to be like this?" and later just give up, knowing you can't really do much about it, besides put your trust in God.
It's funny, that when you do put your trust in Him, let things flow, do what you can to help yourself, and just relinquish some of the control you once had over everything, how things start to fall into place. Not always how you wanted them to, or thought that they would, but you begin to see the bigger picture, piece by piece.
So let me leave you with this piece of advice today-
"I believe everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they go right. And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe
good thought my dear. i like this. you're so right. i truly hate the cliche "christian" answer of "it's all apart of the plan." the "Plan." but it's good to be reminded that it's true, there is a "Plan" and we are apart of it as lovers of Christ.
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