The Dalai Lama is brilliant.
How true is this?!
Do you even know how many times I have felt like God just didn't understand?
WHYYYYYYY could I just not have what I wanted?
I for sure, no question about it, guaranteed knew better than Him!!
Oh, Heidi Rae.
How little you know!
Not getting what we think is best for us is just part of the Plan.
And, there really is a plan for each of us!
Every little moment in every single day is part of our very own Plan.
How great is it, really, when we realize that our Plan was not created BY us.
It was created FOR us.
By GOD.
Let that sink in.
The job we didn't get.
The people who we desperately wanted to be friends with but they really didn't want to be friends with us.
The trip we didn't go on.
The relationship(s) that didn't work out. (if only you knew!)
The date you didn't go on.
The car that broke down.
The illness you got.
The loss that you experienced.
All of it has been according to Plan.
I have told this story MANY times.
My children have heard it.
Perhaps some of you have heard it.
It is a true story about my daddy.
He was in high school.
My dad was very popular in high school.
Granted, he lived in Cowley, Wyoming.
Population 400.
And, that is counting every farm animal that has run through the town's limits.
Almost everyone was related somehow, in some way.
My dad is the youngest of seven kids as well.
Everyone knows everyone.
Daddy was a jock, and a good one at that.
After school, seven of his buddies came to his house to get him.
They wanted to go for a drive.
Daddy asked Grandpa if he could go.
Grandpa said, "No."
Daddy threw a bit of a teenage jock fit.
He was angry that Grandpa wouldn't let him go.
Grandpa held firm.
Dad asked him why.
Grandpa simply said he could not go.
Daddy went and told his friends that he couldn't go and off his friends went.
The next day at school, there was a lot of chatter.
Daddy rushed home.
Grandpa was there.
Grandpa told him it was true -
Six of his friends were dead and the seventh would be a vegetable for the rest of his life.
Daddy's friends were in a horrifying accident.
Grandpa told Daddy that he didn't have a "good" reason to not let him go on that drive;
simply that he had a bad, bad feeling about it and knew he couldn't give in to Dad's tantrum.
Not getting what we want is far more than a stroke of luck - it's all according to Plan.
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