Happy Monday!

It is raining, but I think today is a beautiful day!

I wanted to share a verse with you today to ponder on this Monday, the day after Easter... His Resurrection.

Jeremiah 29:11
11 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.

Isn't it nice to know that someone knows your entire story from start to finish?

Isn't it a comfort to know that He knows every word, every exclamation point, every lull in your story?

That He knows the exciting parts, that parts that while you are living through them second by second, He is enjoying seeing your joy as much as you are feeling it? He is smiling right along with you?

That at the moments of great sorrow he is feeling your pain every second you are? That when you can't possibly understand why...He is patiently showing you to trust Him and one day He will tell you why this happened?

A friend and I we were talking about how frustrating it is sometimes NOT knowing what your future holds. (This lately, has been a recurring conversation in many peoples lives.) How stressfull it can be to know if you are making the right decision for your family.

I hope she doesn't mind me sharing something that she shared with me. Wise words from a man of God. I hope you find comfort in these words.

"While on the phone the other day, I asked him “Fr. John, don’t you wish you could just know what was going to happen in the end? Don’t you wish God would just make some kind of obvious sign to tell you how this is going to end?” He wisely said “No, I’ve come to learn that the Lord only gives me what I need to know for the next step because I can’t handle knowing it all at once.” Wow… he went on to tell me that because he’s an engineer by trade, he tends to like things to be neat and tidy. God doesn’t work in the neat and tidy. He said that if he knew the “end” instead of learning along the way, he would try to work his engineer skills to make a straight line from the here and now to the end needed.
He then told me about a time he had a conversation with another priest who told him this: “Look outside- look at everything with perfectly straight lines. A building, a street, a train track, a house and so on…they are all man made. Now, look at all of the things that God made. Nothing is perfectly straight. That is how God works”