Hello Tammie

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I asked God from something special on the way home today... as I have noticed my shoulders hanging a little lower than normal and my steps a little draggy... I received this note in my Email:


A Better Plan from a Better Planner
By John Ortberg
It’s almost Thanksgiving, with Christmas right behind. Often on the holidays we become aware that life does not go the way we plan. We think to ourselves:
I was supposed to be married by now.
I was supposed to be promoted by now.
I was supposed to have retired, or to have children, or to have achieved this dream-
Or, I wasn’t supposed to go bankrupt.  I wasn’t supposed to lose my job, or get divorced, or get cancer.
What do you do when life doesn’t turn out the way you planned?
One of the great statements of the Bible reads: “For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD. Plans to prosper you, and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope, and a future.’
Jeremiah 29:11
We all have plans. But God does not say:  “I know the plans YOU have for you…”
In the Bible, God is always interrupting somebody’s plan. 
Adam didn’t plan on getting created. 
Noah didn’t plan on building an ark. 
Abraham didn’t plan on becoming the father of a new nation in his 90’s.   
Esther didn’t plan on stopping genocide. 
Moses didn’t plan on defying Pharaoh.  
Mary didn’t plan on getting pregnant. 
Not a single story in the Bible begins:  “Then someone had a great plan…”
But God has a plan.
Better than our plan.
So even if we have many disappointments, we have something else, something to be grateful for.  We are part of somebody else's plan; a better plan, from a Better Planner. His plan is better than we could invent ourselves in a million years. 
Gratitude is one of the best parts of the plan.

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