The 5 Year Plan

I zipped up my suitcase crammed with fabulous new clothes for a weekend with my girls and stepped back and thought, "wow five years!" If you had asked me five years ago where I would be when the reunion rolled around, I would have still been in that town I love so much with a husband and maybe even a child, a stay at home mommy looking forward to a weekend with grown-ups.... but funny how my five year plan isn't remotely how I pictured it... you see it's even better!
Better because it was not what I had planned but what He had planned and if I have learned anything this past year besides theorists and what the "best" reading methods are to teach children to read... I have learned that God's plan for my life is waaaaaaaaaaay better than the plan I have for myself.
So as I board the plane tonight and fly back to the place that will forever be impressed upon my heart, I will look out that window and silently pray a huge prayer of thank-you to a God who loves me so much as to not allow my five year plan to come to fruition, because He knew that there were many steps along this five year path that I have taken that have led me time and time again to the foot of the cross and to the place of being so helpless and so alone, that I needed His healing, His grace, His guidance, and His hand to gently lead me to where I was supposed to be and for that I am most humbled!
So as this five years post college comes to a close, I cannot even imagine what the next five have in store, but I do know who holds my future in His hands and I will rest in knowing that.