“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.” Andre GideI had a project plan for my wedding, complete with timeline, Gantt chart, and issues list, but that didn’t prevent the unplanned failed wedding dress ten days before the wedding. A good wedding plan has room for surprises like people who show up that didn’t send in their RSVP. But a failed dress days before, I didn’t have a ‘plan B’ for that.
In the beginning my husband and I talked about a simple wedding, less expensive than the ‘average’ wedding price tag that we'd heard about. Rather than a fortune on a fancy cake, we had three sheet cakes, one with a special message from him to me and another with a message from me to him. The third had an image with our theme verse. I will admit the dress had gone a bit beyond simple. It started with just a little more, then headed down the road of extravagance. So when I had ten days to come up with a new dress, it turned out to be just what I had originally wanted - simple - and a lot cheaper, too. The dress scenario was the detour that got our simple wedding back on track. It was the detour that showed me how to turn over our wedding plans to God. And what I learned from it about payer and God’s grace helped a lot in that first year of marriage when there were so many changes in our lives. But, the detour is where I grew. It's when I learned. It's how I came to walk closer with God. It’s where I discovered how to better approach the many detours between “I do” and “happy ever after.” And, every detour I’ve faced has been different, so I’m still learning. Has you path always been straight? Have those detours been difficult? Is there another way to view those detours now? How will you respond to your next detour? Lord, thank You for giving me eyes to see that the detours are equally as valuable as the objective...and also, for all I’ve learned along the way. Amen “’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare not for calamity, to give you a future and a hope.’” Jeremiah 29:11 What are your thoughts? Libby Note: Andre’ Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951) was a French writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 for his works in which human conditions were presented with “a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight.”
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