I had a dream as an adolescent. I just knew my life was going to pan out just like this: graduate high school, with honors, go to college, meet the man of my dreams in college, marry the man of my dreams after college, find the job of my dreams (working in an acute care setting with children) after college and start this amazing life with the man and job of my dreams, then start a family with said man.
Boy oh boy. Was I ever naïve and wrong. Did I graduate and go to college? Yes. Did I find a job in the career that I love, yes. But. That whole time, in case you missed it, was all about me. Did I pray about it, yeah, sometimes. Did I talk about it, yeah, all the time. I was so proud of myself, having my whole life planned out by the 7th grade, while everyone else couldn't even decide what their dream career was, or which college to attend. I did everything according to plan, well everything that I could control happening, and with God's will.
Life will not always go as planned, in fact it is rare. Tragedy happens, hearts are broken, relationships end and begin, feelings hurt, emotions are played with, loved ones lost. Your body changes, your family changes, dynamics of the life you once knew shift. Life just happens. If life didn't change, you would get bored. Change is great, change causes growth, change is necessary and eminent. Is it always for the better? Not always, but there is always a purpose. God always has a plan, and His plan is always best.
I don't know what the thing is in your life is that seems so impossible right now that you would throw doubt towards God's ability to help you overcome it. And maybe you are even laughing at the mere thought of God doing something to change your current circumstance.
Even if you're laughing. God can do it. No matter the extent of the ridiculousness that you feel it may be. And if you are laughing because it is something so incredible or amazing that you don't think God would ever bless you in that way, think again. But also, don't expect incredible amazing extravagant things to be the only blessings in your life. The fact that you woke up today, that your lungs kept breathing while you slept, that your heart beats and your brain functions 24/7. That alone is a blessing.
I think back to some of the astonishing and crazy moments in my past. No matter the outcome of what happened, in hindsight I always knew God had a reason, He always has a reason for everything that happens in your life. Though this is always a struggle with me, being 24, and still single, I pray for peace and patience over me and my expectance for my life at this point. So often I get caught up in what I want, the way I wish my life was, the fact that I don't have the man of my dreams yet, and many other things that I feel should be the way I want them to be at this point in time, but the reality is, God is in control, and He knows what I need when I need it and how I will obtain or receive such things. He knows my every want, and He know those that He will let me have, and those that He won't. I am slowly learning to trust Him more and more in this aspect.
"For I know that plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
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