Not What I'd Planned

A job I had once enjoyed had become very unpleasant. The atmosphere was full of tension, and I didn’t know what to do about it. One morning I prayed, leaving the whole situation in God’s hands. The next day, I lost my job. Obviously, this was not the solution I had anticipated, and I was concerned about finances. Even so, I felt a strange sense of peace, a sense that somehow this was the answer to my prayer. Whenever anxious thoughts returned, I would pray again, and the peace of God would calm my fears.

Through this experience, I learned to trust God. Eventually I was offered a much better job and found peace in knowing that God had been present through it all. Now when the worries of life come, I remember the time that God answered my prayer in a different way from what I had hoped for, and my peace returns.

God cares for each of us and will bring us what is best for us. We need only to pray and trust him and then act on his guidance.

Prayer: Dear Lord, help us to release everything in our lives into your loving care. Amen