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Raise your hand if this has ever happened to you. You have the next few days, weeks, months, whatever... all planned, then God hits you up the side of the head with something completely different, something that turns your plans and your little world completely upside down and is even downright painful. Alright, you can put your hands down now. And it really isn't necessary to jump up and down, waving your arm wildly! (Though it is nice to know I'm not the only one!)

As you've undoubtedly guessed, this has happened to me. In fact, it happened to me this summer. My neatly planned summer that I was looking forward to so eagerly took an ugly turn and I--to coin an expression--belly flopped right into a painful pool of family relationship issues. After a couple of months of floundering around in self-pity and "why me, God?" and downright agony and "what do we do, God?", I think I'm beginning to be able to dog paddle a little now. I think I may be moving on to the learning stage, learning what it is God has to teach me, discovering the way through this morass we found ourselves in. It is still way hard, but a small light bulb went on this morning. This will be the summer that God began an amazing growth in me.

I can't wait to see how it all turns out!