I shared my thoughts that I wrote about on my last post in testimony meeting today. I don’t bear my testimony because it makes me feel uncomfortable. I’d much rather be asked to give a talk. Anyway, I’ve been thinking today about how I had everything all planned out of what was going to happen and what it meant for everything to work out. Sometimes I still think that way, and I suppose that’s normal and good to have plans for our future. As long as we don’t allow our happiness to depend upon those events happening or not happening in our lives. When I came home from church, I saw this quote on Facebook, and it was perfect for the point I was trying to make.
"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." -Joseph Campbell
I don’t know who Joseph Campbell is, and I suppose in a perfect world the quote would more accurately say, “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that Heavenly Father has waiting for us.” That’s what I think it should say. Quote me on that.
It is good to have plans. But it is better to let go of your plans to let God implement His superior plans for you instead, even when that means giving up the things you were certain that you needed or wanted most. I have learned that, when we are living lives worthy of His blessings, Heavenly Father will never make us settle for anything but the best. While it may appear for a moment that we are losing our dream home – the one that we built from scratch with all the amenities and upgrades we ever wanted – we are gaining a mansion that we never even imagined could be ours. He will never make us settle, I am sure of that.
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