Do God's plans upset you?

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Do you get upset with God’s plans (with what happens when it differs from what you wanted to happen)? My client was upset today. He had plans, important things to do. But God messed up his plans. His computer broke down and he had to deal with God’s plans instead of following his own.

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If you make plans, often God will align with them, but not always

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Do you get upset with God’s plans? It’s important to have your own plans. But despite the best of planning, the best of preparation, sometimes God has plans that are different from yours. And She often doesn't let you know about them until the last minute. God is the master of the fait accompli.

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How dare anyone interfere with our expectations!

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But that is our typical response when God interrupts our plans. We get upset with ourselves, we get upset with others, we get upset with God or the universe (but God did it all).

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Back to Eden

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It could be said that all your suffering comes from resisting God's plans, thinking they He shouldn't have interfered with your plans. The end of suffering is simple, although a very new habit to acquire and master. 

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Whenever something happens that makes some part (or all) of your old plan obsolete, you adjust immediately, as if starting fresh from that point, with nothing to make up for, with nothing to catch up on, with nothing to get back to, and with nothing that you have to prove, re-planning freshly from that new reality.

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To do anything else is to be fighting with what God did and with reality. As Byron Katie said, 

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"When you fight with reality, you lose—but only 100% of the time."

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Get curious about God's plans (as revealed by what happens)

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What if you became interested in God’s plans? What if you asked yourself,

 

“What is He trying to do for me?”

“How might He be providing a gift to me in this breakdown?”

“How might I create a gift out of this breakdown?”

“What really valuable lesson might I learn out of these circumstances?”

“How might I begin to see God’s plans as preferable over the plans that I had that He interrupted?”

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Can you feel how letting go of trying to control God’s plans is a choice of courage? Breathe into the fear and honor yourself for choosing that courage.