Will the Real Plan A Please Stand Up?

When Plan A fails we say, “Well, I’ll just have to go to Plan B.” But what if “Plan A” was an assumption and really not Plan A at all? What if all these years I’ve been living and operating in what I thought was Plan A, but it wasn’t? What if I have been going about my business thinking I was playing my A game, when all along it was Plan B or C or D or Z? So “Plan A” tanks and I’m left thinking, “Ok, this sucks, so what’s Plan B?” This is where a lot of us get stuck: “Plan A” behind us, mired in self-pity and despair, with no clue as to what Plan B looks like, smells like, feels like. But what if assumed Plan A tanked because of divine providence, and the real Plan A, a plan I never dreamed of, prepared for, or imagined, was waiting in the wings and will soon be unfolded? What has been standing in the way of real Plan A? Assumed Plan A! I had been asking God to show me Plan B lately. Then last night, out of nowhere, the thought hit me like a garbage truck on it’s way to the dump that maybe I haven’t even tapped into Plan A yet! That revelation was somehow liberating in that it seemed to give my future a fresh new look. Plan A straight ahead …