Dear God of the Plan and the Way,
"If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail." - Harvey MacKay
I had a plan once, but it didn't really work out. I think I stopped believing in plans. There are too many ugly things with plans, disappointments, failures, and ends justify the means. They're billigerent and willful creations, rigid to hold themselves up.
"I say there's trouble when everything is fine. The need to destroy things creeps up on me everytime." - Jenny Lewis
But without a plan, I feel like the destroyer. I can't decide whether to be present and disbelieve other people's plans, or crawl into a hole and let others follow their plans unaffected by me. I wonder, if you're preparing me for glory, why am I this way? Or am I being prepared for destruction?
"I got a way? Is that better than a plan?" - Malcolm Reynolds
I can believe in a way, though. A set of ethics to live by and see where it takes me - an unknown destination. But not really. You always knew my way led to you. God, you have always had a plan and you have always had a way. You didn't teach me your plan; you taught me your way. So as I live, may I love the Lord my God with all my heart, soul, and mind; may I love my neighbor as myself; may I only be mildly surprised at where that way leads.
Your servant,
BJ
"Every society has its fringe dwellers, and every society fears its fringe dwellers. Usually because they are the example of what happens when you fail in that society. But they are seldom dangerous in reality." - Dr. Temperance Brennan
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Came here from FireBlossom. You are a wonderful writer.
You may know this quote already, but if not...
MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. - from "Thoughts in Solitude", by Thomas Merton
(Came from David's place, by the way.)
If I put my hand in His, how can I falter? I agree with David, you are a wonderful writer. This post makes you think...
Sandi
ps
congratulations on the Post of the Day comment at David's by the way
Thank you everyone, for the props!
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