God’s Perfect Plan

I’ll never be able to tell you how it happened. All I can tell you is it did, and it hurt. One minute I was helping Mom unload groceries. The next minute I was screaming because I had slammed MY OWN thumb in the car door. I know it takes talent. When Mom came out and opened the door so I could get my thumb out, it was flatter than a pancake. You couldn’t tell that there was any sort of a bone in there. I could have swore to you at that moment it was at least broken, if not crushed into a million pieces. My mom, being the wise woman she was, decided to wait till my dad got home in a couple hours to decide what to do. Two hours later my thumb was as good as new. There was no sign whatsoever that I had just crushed it in a door. I was playing baseball with my brother!!!

So now you’re thinking, “So what? You thought you broke it, but you didn’t. It happens all the time,” right? What you don’t understand is that there is no way with as flat as it was that I couldn’t at least have broken it. Talking to Mom years later, she said she just knew I’d probably have to have surgery, and it would hinder me when I got older.

So now fast-forward to present day. I’m telling you all this to tell you that today I am a court reporter. I sit in depositions and type every word that’s said. To graduate, I had to type 70 words per minute on a regular typewriter and 225 words per minute on my steno machine. Now I can type anywhere between 90 and 100 wpm on a regular typewriter. I totally believe that I’m doing God’s will in my life. Everything worked out just too right for it to have been done all by my planning. J

You see, way back then God had a plan for me. He knew that one day I would need my thumb to type my vowels on my steno machine. And we all know the vowels are the most important part of the word. You can’t make a word without them. Without my thumbs I wouldn’t be able to type my vowels and do my job.

God has a plan for you, too. Sometimes you instantly see it. Sometimes it takes 15 years to figure it out, like me. And sometimes we never figure it out. There are things I know I’ll never know the reasons for until I get to Heaven. All I know is every time I start to doubt God has a plan for me, I just look at my thumb and wiggle it a little and am reminded that every little thing is all part of His perfect plan.

Lord, even though we may not always understand, help us to accept each part of Your wonderful, perfect plan for our lives. Amen