So God works in the craziest ways....  I never thought I was really the adventurous type....  I always played it safe, followed the rules...  told on people who didn't (sorry sisters...)... and now here I am, my perfectly planned out life, not at all what God had PERFECTLY planned... In my perfect plan, I would already be married and have at least one child by now...  In God's Perfect Plan... I'm definitely not.  My plan never involved Africa... and now I can not imagine my life without it.  I still don't know God's whole plan... but I am trying not to rely on my flawed "plan"  and to trust in God's perfect plan, even though I might not always know what it is.  That is the hard part, not being so analytical that I have to know every detail of the plan for it to be a good plan.  Because, no matter how much I would have liked my plan (and I would have...), God's has been totally awesome!!  Better than mine ever would have been.  And I wouldn't chose any other.

And here I am standing on the cusp of a whole nother number.. still not knowing the "plan."  My birthday wish:  To have more than enough faith to live my life...  without fear... boldly. Knowing that while this wasn't my original plan, it's God's and thats so much better!! 

Grace and Peace