Impeccable Timing?

I know God’s plans are perfect and that they always turn out to be for the best, but he sure has a way of stressing me out!  It is true that every time in my increasingly LONG life (I’m getting old quick!) that plans didn’t go the way I planned them, I can see in retrospect how He took care of me and made things work out in ways I could have never imagined as they seemed to derail in front of me.  It was true about my pregnancy with Josiah and while I’ve been a bit stressed about it, I have a peaceful calm that the same will be true with this next sweet baby.

Within a week of finding out about Josiah’s coming, life turned upside down, or at least it seemed to.  Then life did another flip several months later. Throughout pregnancy and the following year there were multiple other hurdles to overcome.  Nothing was as we had planned, yet if anything was changed, I’d have given up a blessing.  I wrote about it in the post called “God is Good” in February 2009, if you are interested.

We had hoped to wait to expand our family until I was firmly established in job.  After all, it would be difficult to get a job while pregnant or immediately after having a baby, rendering me unlikely to be employed for yet another year.  However, after learning someone else had been hired for only the second job I’d even heard of in our area in 1.5 years of searching, we decided it just wasn’t my time to work and that we should move forward with life.   A week later I got the call that the job could be mine.  Surely it wasn’t too late to change our minds, right?  Apparently it was, as we later found out.  Several weeks later I was on the work schedule for the next month and needing to share my news with my new boss.  And I thought telling my boss whom I’d worked for for a year that I was having a baby was nerve wracking!

(Meanwhile I have also had three other offers for relief/part time positions.  Feast or famine, right?)

I’m excited to see what path our lives take over the next year.  I definitely have my hopes and plans, but if there is one thing I’ve learned in the last 2 years or so, it is not to get caught up in my plans and stress out when they go awry.  (That’s a lie; I still stress.  I just do it differently now.)  Even so, this is one girl who is counting her blessings!

 

Side note: you may have noticed an increase in blog posts lately.  I’ve had a lot on my mind since finding out I was pregnant and I was just bursting to blog about many things, but they all gave away our little secret, so I pre-wrote several of them and have been posting them here and there as appropriate.  This is the last of them and was written when I had just told my boss about this coming baby (that went so-so) and I was highly stressed about it.   I have since started the job and everything seems to be playing out nicely.  Isn’t God a mastermind?