“yeah, so maybe the day didn’t go quite as planned, because, hey, let’s be real honest here, we aren’t what we would have planned.

But, we can hear it, in all the noise everywhere, the grace of Your whispering Word right here: ‘All that matters? Is that I have loved you at your darkest. All that matters is that you are deeply loved in the midst of your deepest dark.’ Ro.5:8

So, yeah , we sit with that — sit with that for a good, long bit. That binds up the wounds.

The grace in Christ is far greater than the mess in our crisis.

That changes our world tonight…

#HonestPrayers#1000Gifts” (Ann Voskamp).

So what happens when your day doesn’t go as planned? So many of us aren’t where we thought we’d be. So many are unemployed, unmarried, unsure of what the next day will hold. But we can be sure that our God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. We can be sure that His promises for us are still YES and AMEN. We can know that whatever happens in the next 24 hours, because of the cross and the resurrection of Jesus, everything is going to be okay.

I’d rather be in the middle of God’s will than have every single thing go my way and go exactly like I planned it because my plans are based on my very finite perspective while God is seeing the whole picture from start to finish. I trust God’s hand because I trust God’s heart, so I know that even when I can’t see it, He’s working all things together for my good.