Next week at this time I’ll be in the midst of my first blogging conference, Allume. I simply cannot wait to be around hundreds of women that get this whole blogging deal.
In the meantime, planning has abounded as the time draws closer.
People are already packing (I’ll probably still be doing laundry Thursday morning!).
We’re updating spreadsheets for our name tags.
We’re paying for tickets for head shots and morning tea.
We’re signing up for group meetings.
We’re picking out ballet flats and scarves.
We’re choosing which sessions to attend. (3pm Friday. Help?)
We’re planning gifts.
Some are even organized enough to put an entire notebook together (I’m totally jealous of your organizational skills!)
We have all these plans.
Proverbs 19:21 reminds us the wise realize the Lord’s purpose will prevail.
Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
We have to be open to our plans falling apart.
Maybe we spill something on our new shirt at dinner so we go back to our room and find an overwhelmed roommate needing a friend.
Maybe we oversleep and miss tea but the Lord knows we need extra sleep for an emotionally exhausting day.
Heck, maybe we miss our entire flight and end up not going and never really understand why.
All sorts of interruptions to our plans are possible.
God has his own plans about what Allume is supposed to look like for each one of us. Yes, let’s prepare and enter spreadsheets and choose our scarves, but let’s also be open in those often frustrating moments to remember God’s purposes are prevailing.
Challenge: What interruptions in your life could be God’s purposes prevailing? Give thanks to Him for caring enough to interrupt.
This post is part of The Nester’s 31 Days Series
Great post!
Thanks!
God has made this a running theme in my life lately. Just because MY good and awesome plans fall through doesn’t mean He doesn’t have something exponentially more good and awesome for me. 🙂
Hope you have a great time at the conference!
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This was a good wake-up call for me in the midst of Allume planning. First, I need to commit the conference to him (from the other day) and yet still say, my plans are ultimately up to Him to change. I’m thinking now I should almost pray for interruptions so I know he’s not leaving me to my own devices. This reminds me of Jen Hatmaker’s book Interrupted. Good stuff.
I have no plans for next week yet. Just so you know. 🙂
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You are probably the WISE one then LOL. I admit I tend to over-plan (in my head at least) when I’m going into a new environment.
I’m so excited. I have the best roomies ever 🙂