Plan A

Okay, this post is about pride, specifically my own. I've been moody and lolly gaggin (?) around the last few weeks about the fact that my "Plan A" is not going to happen.

In order to be annoyingly vague and applicable to all I will not go into details of "Plan A" other than it is well, "Plan A." So what are we to do? We were given a God given vision and somehow along the lines the pieces didn't fall into place and we are left cutting our losses and finding the proverbial "Plan B"

I'm sure my Calvie friends would use the good ole joke that I am simply "elect to suck" but, for the rest of us it is not so simple. I wish I could tell you that I spent hours on my face and days fasting when the Lord granted me peace about this. Okay - I don't really wish that. Contrary to popular belief I only like reading the Puritans :)

I'm constantly amazed by what I am not good at. Please read that line again - that's right - my humility is amazing. Seriously though, I'm consistently mucking up the most fundamental aspects of the Christian life. You want to know how I found peace in this situation? I shared my burden with a brother. Wow! It only took weeks for me to recognize that maybe somebody else's input could be pertinent.

And like most things I have found out as of late, Plan A is not as far out of my reach as I once thought, and neither is my community.