By my sophomore year of high school, I thought I had my life planned out. I had figured it out, and I was good to go. Things were going smoothly, and I thought I had it all. I loved God and was grateful for His son's sacrifice, but was I really? Did I act like I was? Or did I just live my life according to MY plan, not HIS, and come to Him only when something went wrong? The answer is definitely the latter.

A year or so later, the turbulence came, and I found myself clueless, scared, and with a failed plan in my rear view mirror. Everything that I thought about my future life during my sophomore year of high school was completely different, and at first, I did not like it all.

The perfect plan that I had created for my self two or three years ago came crumbling down, and in the long run, it turned out to be exactly what I needed.

When I found myself upset, alone, and worried, I ran toward God, more than I ever had. I found all of my comfort in Him, and things began to make sense. When everything was going perfectly in my life according to my own earthly, selfish plan, I had no real reason to lean on God with every part of me, but when I felt like I had no one else and no real direction in my life, I knew I always had my greatest Father, Creator, and Confidant.

My mom always taught me to be independent and to never have to rely on someone or something else in life for yourself or your happiness, but one thing: God. Until recently, I didn't realize how important of a life lesson that is.

My plans fell apart, and I was lost. But God's reason was far greater than my brokenness because I ran to Him, full speed sprinted actually, and that was a part of His plan all along.

I needed Him, and I didn't even know it. My Heavenly Father did, though. When I thought I was broken and without a direction, I found my comfort, joy, peace, and worth in Him for the first time in a long time, and because of that, I know now that His will is always greater. It always will be, and for that, I am truly eternally grateful.

Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end, you will be counted among the wise. Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.

Proverbs 19: 20-21

So much peace can be found in the promises of our Father. His plan, purpose, and will for our lives is far greater than our selfish hearts can imagine.

While my plan and what I thought would be my perfect life didn't work out, I find peace in His word, knowing that his plan will work itself out in my life, and it will be incomparable to anything I could have ever known without Him.