Self-reflection can bring smiles of joy or tears of sadness. Over the last month, I have found myself experiencing both ends of the spectrum. I guess it is something that is going around because most of my close sista friends have been expressing the same sentiments over the last few years as we have entered our forties.
A few months ago a close sista friend and I were talking, we have been friends since we were in Junior High School, so we have know each other during the high and low points of our lives. Both of us remarked almost at the same point in the conversation, how as 16 year olds we never dreamed that we would be living the lives that we are living now and wonder how we made it to this point. Another long-term friend and I spoke recently and our conversation turned to the men in our lives, be both thought back to our childhood and again remarked that we had different plans back then.
You see self-reflection allows you to look at the paths that you have traveled and the plans that you made and clearly show you that God is the best of planners. So the fact that my one sista friend and I aren’t in a place that we planned to be or my other sista friend and I don’t have men that we created a mental picture of as little girls does not mean that we are not exactly where God intended us to be.
A few weeks ago, I commented to a friend, who I recently reconnected with on Facebook, "finding and reconnecting with so many old friends has made me think back to a saying we passed around as teenagers" ‘There are friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for life." So many of us made plans when we graduated to stay in touch, visit each other at college and to remain best of friends for life, but God had other plans we went our separate ways and led separate lives.
So no matter the emotion I feel when I pause on life’s journey to reflect on my past, present and future, I know that there will be people who are there for a reason, for a season, and for life. I will understand that I may end up in situations that I wonder how I arrived, and I may connect with people who are on this journey with me for just a season, I know that it’s God’s plan and there is not one better.
Just the way I see it.
Until next time,
Nay-Nay
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I agree with you that our plans are not Gods plans, but I also know that according to scripture, God lays before us blessings and cursings, life and death. He gave us a huge hint by saying "choose life". His plans for us are clearly laid out,but He gave us free will to choose which plan we wish to follow. The path of blessings or the path of cursings. What hinders most spiritual people in my opinion, is that we have this false sense that God is sort of playing Chess with our lives.
ReplyDeleteHe gave us all the instruction we need. So whether it be friends for a season, a reason or a lifetime, spousal or business partners, whatever the situation, we are still the co-pilots of our journey, it just depends on which map we choose to follow.
This I do know, God's plan is not for us to be a martyr for anyone, my savior already did that for me and for them. We have no excuses for where we are or who we are with but ourselves and the glorious thing about it is, until we take our last breath we have every opportunity to choose life.