God Laughs When you Plan Your Life

Life is a funny thing. It is described as a journey that has its ups and downs, its dark times, and times of joy. We attempt to plan our lives from childhood to old age. We then live in a daily plan to implement the initial plan. So it was with my life. But, I have learned that there is a Master plan that outranks any plan I can make and is far more freeing then the constant daily manipulation.

As a child, life was simple. It was filled with learning my environment and social skills. Later it became more complicated because I had to learn the basics for life. Other people made the plans. Parents, and teachers organized the days while I loved to play. In time I grew and became more serious due to the plans for my future. Ah, now here is the question, “What do you want to do with your life?” What is considered a good plan? As a young lady, getting married and having a family is the usual way to go in the good old days, but the modern way opens up job opportunities that provides a good income. For me it was nursing. Now the plan was the income to support myself and the security that comes with it. My life was implementing that plan. I would put on the uniform, stethoscope and name badge as charge nurse and that was my identity.

Identity means, “the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.” But, is that all to my life? What about the quality of life? I admit, at the time, I didn’t think much about it. I was to busy making money. Then I had to have surgery and I was out of work for three months. Now I had a lot of time to contemplate how quickly the best made plans fall apart. There was no money,(charge nurse is not a salary position) thus no security. As a matter of fact life didn’t seem secure at all because life has a whole different meaning then just establishing your identity. I am responsible for my own life and yet I can not control it.

I laid there on the bed and listened to my heart beat. The room was very quiet and there was a growing sense that I was very alone. I thought that I didn’t need anybody and I can make my own way in the world. I was self sufficient, but now I am not. Little did I know that there is an unknown factor that was not available to me. Something that is missing at birth, and yet can be lived without, but living it is not complete. In other words there has got to be more to life then this. So, having the mind that I have, I started searching. After doing some reading to fill the hours, I happened upon the Bible. I started reading and found it to be hard to read. Not that I didn’t understand it. I just didn’t understand the Author. But what did catch my eye was that man was never meant to be alone. Out of all my reading this hit the nail right on the head. I was never meant to be alone and yet here I am, “ALONE”. Ok, so if that is true I will ask God. I didn’t realize it at the time but I gave my human plan over to God’s plan. I had inadvertently tapped into the Master plan for my life in a very small and naïve way. I prayed for a man to come into my life. The funny thing is I believed that it would happen. I was never popular. I didn’t seem to fit in. Books were my focus. So, yes, this would be a move of God.

To make a long story short I not only met someone. I met the one individual who is a perfect match not only for me but for a work that defines life beyond the physical. There was a whole new level of understanding about life and by living the Master plan I suddenly realized my true value and identity. I would never be alone again. You see, I had met God who gave me my life mate. The Master had a plan for my life all along. He opened the doors for me to help people physically and once I grew through that I wound up suffering through the surgery time which became a growing point. What I thought would be a tragedy actually turned out to be a relationship with God and His plan which was to heal people spiritually. My title….Rev./RN (Reverend)

Rev. Sybille Norris RN

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