Go with the Flow

There comes a time in your life when you reflect on your past:

everything you've been through, who you have become. 

Heck, there's probably several times in your life when you do that. 

Are we who we thought we'd be?

When I was little, I had all sorts of fantasies. 

I was going to be the next Crocodile Hunter.
And a Shamu trainer at Sea World.
And a dolphin trainer at the Minnesota Zoo.
And a marine biologist.
And a wildlife biologist.
I was determined to be something with animals.
And now I'm a teacher.

Why do we make plans?
Life never ever goes according to plan.
Heck, I never ever planned on converting to Mormonism.
I never planned on marrying Thomas when we started dating.
The plan was to grow up, go to college (for some animal-related degree), fall in love with a good Catholic man who also loved animals, get married once done with school, and make babies.


But life throws us curveballs.
And even as you adapt to those curveballs, 
even as you update your plans to your ever-changing life,
those plans still never seem to go the way you want them to.
The way you intended them to.


But maybe that's for the best.
I can't imagine a better life than the life I have with Thomas.
I can't imagine a different life.
Even though my plans changed, they changed for the better.
God had a different plan for me than the plans I had made for myself.


So why, then, do we get caught up on plans?
Why not just go with the flow?
Whatever's meant to be, will be.
Sometimes, that's hard to go by.
Sometimes it's hard to accept those heartbreaking curveballs.
Sometimes it's hard to accept the different plans God has for you, or maybe the ones you love.
But even though it's hard to accept, knowing that it's part of God's plan for us will hopefully help us adjust to things we don't expect.


It's always interesting for me, to look back on my life before and remember how I thought my life was going to go, and where I've ended up....thus far in my life.
Life is grand.
Because God is grand.