Last week when I was computerless, I spent a lot of time thinking about God's plan or "destinies". It is a topic that has come up often over the last 6 months. That is not an accident. Now, we (ladies at church) are doing Beth Moore's Study on Esther. Destiny is all over that study!! ANd I have cried every week so far. I highly recommend this study if you ever have the opportunity to participate!!
Sometimes the enormity of it all just brings me to my knees!! "It" being God's plan, or moment, or grace, or trial, or fill in the blank with anything that pertains to that which we do not know or understand just yet.
This time last year, I was preparing for the birth of my son. I was picking up my husband from the airport for a long Easter Weekend. He was in California, getting ready to deploy to Iraq, trying to get a plane out the Friday before Easter. ( Why was Easter in March last year?) I had Braxton Hicks contractions all the way out to the Birmingham airport. If not for the other officers, my husband would have been on the advanced party and would have missed the birth entirely. Tomorrow on the 24th, our son turns one. I can't help but wonder what destiny holds in store for this precious child. What does the story God's written for him look like?
For more about the ironies of God's plan, you can visit Melanie as she studies the book of Ruth. Her post for today really stirred my heart. I wonder if King David ever really read their story?
