"People Plan, God Laughs"

Saw that yesterday and realized how true it is.  Just four words... You can plan and plan and then whammo!  God has a different idea.  I'm not sure I can picture God actually laughing at our having to change our plans, but I guess it's a nice visual when life takes a turn, not to our liking.

There were plenty of times, I'm sure, when God was laughing at the Wrights, in the course of their married lives.  It started out with the bride having mononucleosis for her wedding.  Having to take two weeks off work to heal, beforehand, meant no honeymoon.  God got a kick out of that, I bet!  

I'm pretty sure the Good Lord thought he'd be getting a chuckle out of our planned vacation to Myrtle Beach that was almost halted by three boys with chicken pox.  But God would have to wait for his laughs that time.  After fretting and polling the 10 other families making the trip (to make sure they were okay with us going --they were.) we loaded up the old station wagon and headed south.  Turns out the salt water was great for chicken pox.  Who knew?  And not one kid from our group came down with the rash, after being with our kids for a week.  However, we have no way of knowing if a worldwide epidemic didn't start with kids NOT in our group...like the ones who happened to be in the hotel game room, which emptied, when our boys entered....(Ah, unlimited Pac-Man!). Maybe God got his giggles out of THOSE kids' parents' wrecked plans.  

When some of our plans --- serious "life"ones --- never came to fruition, it wasn't as funny.  Plans that involved money, serious health issues, real estate challenges, job changes, the kids being disappointed over something -all were unavoidable, as they are for everyone.   But while God was smiling...maybe even laughing at these times,  He was also helping us get through 'em.

Yes, life has a way of moving along.  You can plan and plan and it just doesn't work out the way you want it to...all the time.  I guess we should just try to roll with the punches, smiling,  maybe even laughing, when our plans don't work out.  Because I'm pretty sure God is.