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:

The Unfolding Rose … My Unfolding Life
June 2020

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.”

So rather than keep all this loveliness to myself, I would like to share in pictures and in words, my beautiful gifts. May you be blessed and warmly inspired to embrace your life for the unfolding flower that it is. Our Master Gardener knows what he is about. And He unfolds our days in ways we couldn’t have imagined. Why not rest in Him and let Him do His work … beautifully. He is in control.

Unfolding the Rose**

It is only a tiny rosebud,
A flower of God's design;
But I cannot unfold the petals
With these clumsy hands of mine.

The secret of unfolding flowers
Is not known to such as I.
GOD opens this flower so sweetly,
Then, in my hands, they die. 

If I cannot unfold a rosebud,
This flower of God's design,
Then how can I have the wisdom
To unfold this life of mine? 

So I'll trust in Him for leading
Each moment of my day.
I will look to Him for His guidance
Each step of the pilgrim way.

The pathway that lies before me,
Only my Heavenly Father knows.
I'll trust Him to unfold the moments,
Just as He unfolds the rose.

But thank God! He has made us his captives and continues to lead us along in Christ’s triumphal procession. Now he uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume. Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God.
2 Corinthians 2:14-15a NLT