Finding Grace In The Chapter You Did Not Choose
The Life She Never Planned
Finding grace in the chapter you didn't choose.
This is not the life you sketched out at twenty two. The job is different. The body is different. The relationships are different. The address is different. Some of what you assumed would be here is not here, and some of what is here, you never asked for.
And still, this is your life. The real one. The one God is meeting you in right now. The unplanned chapter is not a punishment. It is not a detour. It is the place where you are learning what you could not have learned in the life you planned.
Make a list of two things. The losses you never expected, and the grace you never expected either. Both lists are true. Both lists matter. The second list is usually longer than we admit, because we have been so busy mourning the first.
You are not behind. You are not broken. You are becoming a woman who can hold an unfinished story with steady hands and a soft heart. That is a holy thing. The best is still ahead of you.
"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 hope and a future."
, Jeremiah 29:11
The chapter I did not choose is still a chapter God is writing.
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