Once upon a time there lived a young girl. She always wanted to know the future. Sometimes she would ask God specific questions about her future. Usually they were yes or no questions. Is he “the one”? Will he call? Sometimes she would get answers to these questions, but she was always wary when the answer was the one she wanted. She was afraid that maybe she was projecting her own feelings and not actually hearing the voice of God. She wondered how to keep her heart and her motives true. At other times she would imagine her future; what she would wear or who she would meet. However, she noticed that whatever she imagined was never the way it turned out. She began thinking maybe by imagining she was erasing that particular scenario from existence, so that it could never happen. Also, she had been hurt by putting too much hope in one particular scenario. Her emotions would tell her things that wern’t true, and so she began to distrust those as well. But, many good things frequently happened to her. Some of the most beautiful things were the one’s she never saw coming. But, she came to realize a few things.
1.) Nothing happens overnight. Sometimes she wakes up from life to realize that she’s not the person she used to be, but after looking back over the weeks and months she sees the gradual change that had been occurring.
2.) There will always be an unknown future ahead and she must trust God in his plan, and always be open minded and ready to accept his change to her plans.
3.) Sometimes God does say “yes”, but accepting this answer can be just as hard or even harder to accept than the “no.”
Now, her story is not over. This young women will continue to live and to grow. Someday soon she may take another stop to look around, and the view will have completely changed. She knows that the view from there will be better than the view from here.
