What Girls Get Wrong

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him,   and he will make your paths straight.” ~ Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV There’s a whole lot of things I don’t get. Like math. I’m pretty good at it, but when it comes to stuff like sine, cosine, and tangent, my mind just shuts down like a stubborn child (for some reason, even the creepy little rhyme “Oscar had a hold on Arthur” or whatever it was didn’t exactly make it any easier). I also don’t get why my grandmother died of colon cancer when I was thirteen. Or why some of my friends suffer with health issues when they try so desperately to eat right and take care of themselves. Or why I couldn’t have some of the opportunities I so desperately wanted. Or why… Or why… The good thing is, we don’t need to. God’s plans are so much better than our own. And even though He closes one door that we wanted to run through, He always opens another ...

Life isn't easy. We all know that, I'm not saying anything new here. And sometimes we feel utterly lost. It doesn't matter what age we are. You could be a teen, in your twenties, or older. You could be in your dream job, or waiting tables trying to break into your dream job. You could have a house full of crazy toddlers, or you could be praying desperately for a baby, or maybe your babies are grown and gone. But sometimes, we just feel lost. We don't know what's going on in our lives. We don't know what God's doing. We don't know how He's going to fix the mess we got ourselves into. We don't know how everything could turn into something wonderful .We feel as if we've missed the mark, as if we failed, as if we've skipped by His plans for us like a blissfully ignorant little grasshopper which got stepped on the next minute. But God isn't done with us. Think about how He chased after Jonah, how He chased after Paul. Think about h...