I get it, but I don't like it.

My conversation on the way home today:

Me: Um, seriously?! Again?!

God: I know the plans I have for you.

Me: But this means that we're set back another MONTH.

God: Plans to prosper you and not to harm you

Me: But why?

God: Plans to give you hope and a future.

Me: Fine. But I'm still gonna cry about it.

God: Go ahead.

Sigh….

How many times have we heard that verse? Jeremiah 29:11. The impatient girl's nemesis.

So we got set back another month today. I sent an email yesterday to the Foster Adoptive Association asking them to register us for the June 13th & 20th classes. I got a call this morning from them saying that those dates didn't exist. When I said that those dates were on the schedule they sent out, she asked me if I was using the schedule they sent a few months back. Then she told me that they had made a new schedule since then.

If you're thinking some not nice things that I should have said to them, trust me - I thought the same thing. But I'm trying to walk this thing out with grace, so I politely asked her to send me the new schedule. Basically, all the dates that would have worked for us are gone and now the earliest we can take the classes is mid-July. 

You should know that I've been asking "But why?" since I was able to talk. It's in my nature. I don't just want to accept an answer, I want to understand it. I want to know how things work. I want to know why people do the things they do. So this is no exception. I find myself trying to find the reason for why things are happening (or not) like they are. But that's the point, isn't it? We're not supposed to know the answers or we wouldn't need faith.

When He says go left, go left.

When He says go right, go right.

When He says wait, wait.

Do we have to like it?

I hope not.