God's Plans

I feel that no matter how hard I try to plan out my life, God's plans for me are always better than anything I could imagine. Maybe you've heard the joke, "How do you get God to laugh?... Tell him your plans!" God's vision is greater than ours. He might smile when we make plans, but only because we lack His vision. We sell our future short. One day we'll realize how great His plans for us really are and we'll laugh at our foolish plans too! One day we'll all come to see the beauty God has prepared for us each and every day.

The Rising Sun

“And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.” -Death Cab for Cutie

I wonder what will come, with tomorrow’s rising sun…

Every night I anticipate.

I plan my day as if it’s fate.

But when I lay and close my eyes

Beneath another moonlit sky,

My head swims through all I’ve done

And what did come with that day’s sun.

Inside I laugh. I start to smile,

For what I planned all the while,

Was truly nothing when compared

To the beauty god had prepared…

With the rising sun.

                                    Jack Shirley