WHAT IF our Plan B is Really God's Plan A?

 WHAT IF our Plan B is Really God's Plan A?

Or stated in another way:

What if God’s Plan A is really our plan B?

Makes me think of the verse that was hanging in my children’s “nursery” as babies:

We may make our plans but God has the last word.
Proverbs 16:1

This verse is not just for my babies, but for all of us “big people.” So it is still on display in our guest room, where we can be reminded. And I am reminded as I sit in my “Prayer Chair” in that lovely room in our condo.

LET LIFE UNFOLD … God is in the unfolding.

So since this is still my birthday month, I’d like to share again my thoughts on God’s unfolding of our days via my favorite flower the rose:

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The Unfolding Rose ... My Unfolding Life

The Unfolding Rose ... My Unfolding Life

I am a June girl. My birthday is in June. And so I have always loved my traditional birth flower, the rose! Yes, I adore roses — especially pink or red.

So imagine my delight when my darling husband “showered me” with roses this year. There was a pop-up bouquet of cut paper loveliness in a card; then a smiling delivery person carrying a vase filled with perfectly formed hot pink roses framed in baby’s breath on my doorstep; but most special of all, John’s message filled with scripture and poetic metaphor celebrating not only my love for roses, but also my obsession with a significant life-changing word, “unfolding.”

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