God, I am ready to agree with your plan
Faith in God is a reminder that we can feel His heart even when we can’t see His hand.
Faith in God is a reminder that we can feel His heart even when we can’t see His hand. I have a great feeling about this summer. It will be easy, light, and end well because we’re beginning in a fun way and flirting with all the opportunities of this Summer 2025 chapter. Sometimes, we’re so focused on what we want or think we need that we forget: ease comes when we agree with God’s plan. It’s not always easy to trust that patience can still lead us to the right place at the right time. But God loves arranging things. He is always orchestrating beauty beneath the surface.
Things get to be easy for you. Things get to be so easy for you. How does that feel?
As I grow, I’m learning to appreciate what’s out of my control just as much as what I can manage. Recently, a plant I have continued to grow, even after all its leaves fell off. I wanted to throw it away, but to my surprise, it started growing again months later. It's a joy to see growth in unexpected places, a reminder that personal growth is a journey worth embracing.
The school year just ended, and for the past year, I’ve been working as a substitute teacher. That role was never part of my plan, but it left a clear and lasting impact on both me and the students. Their laughter, their curiosity, their joy, it rubbed off on me. I didn’t understand why God placed me there or why He took His time moving me around. It didn’t feel like this experience was building my “career.” But in this delicate time, where God had me planted, He was breathing life into an old idea: maybe one day I’ll become someone’s favorite screenwriting professor.
I’m grateful for the lighter days spent writing short films, developing pilots, and getting feedback on stories I love, on seeds I’ve planted. I’ve released the timelines I once held tight. And being a sub? That wasn’t on any vision board. But this year, I was someone’s favorite sub. Being appreciated in an environment that was new to me. And what a gift it was to work alongside some of the same teachers who once poured into me back when I was just a teenager with big dreams of acting, writing, and directing.
We often think waiting delays our destination. But waiting builds character. It reveals real love. It teaches us to see beauty in where we are. The beauty of waiting is in the character it creates, the love it reveals, and the beauty it uncovers in our present. God will always be God, bigger than our desire to have it all figured out. A man with a plan. A dreamer with dreams far bigger than ours.
We may feel we need to work harder. Our vision may be too big. Our dream is taking too long, so we should settle. But what if real growth happens when we choose to rest, reflect, and surrender over constant striving? What if rest is a luxury that actually brings clarity, helping us focus on just one or two meaningful things? The importance of rest over striving is a calming reassurance that growth can occur in stillness, surrender, and reflection.
I know God will continue to water us, even when it feels like nothing is happening, because sometimes the most powerful transformation takes place underground, where no one can see. This season, may we trust that our stillness is not a setback but a sanctuary. That what we’ve planted in faith will bloom in God’s timing, not ours.
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