There’s No Faith In Plan B
With Beck Quee
This is a catchphrase I began saying a long time ago. I love to make plans, and probably like most people, I’m glad when they actually go to plan. I’m sure a lot of us have experienced the opposite of this for the past 18 months, and have had to learn how to deal with plan B, C or even Z.
A key factor to making plans can be the weather, especially in London. My friends know that if they need a sunny day, they ask me to pray for it. I remember many years ago, my family and I were going to an outdoor event and it was forecast to rain. My Nan told us all to bring an umbrella and I refused, remarking “where’s the faith in that?”. It didn’t end up raining that day. I still remember this moment, because it’s been the way I’ve tried to live my life, because this mentality can be applied to many more important areas.
It has been a learning process, because obviously there are always going to be moments of doubt and there are going to be times when plan A doesn’t work. We have to be able to reconcile the times when what we believe and have faith for, don’t work out. While the title of this post is one way I live, I’ve also applied this statement to my life - “If it doesn’t turn out the way I hoped for, it means someone needed the rain more than I needed the sun”. It might sound frivolous, but it’s a way to remind myself that the Lord is bigger than my plans, than your plans and anyone else’s. We see right now but His ways are higher.
My time in London, having arrived on the 16th March 2020, has been very different to how I may have envisioned it a few months before. But I wouldn’t change it as I look back now. There were some months during that time, where it definitely wasn’t sunny (literally as well :P), and I felt at times my faith waver from what I’d been so confident in before, but through prayer and trust, I slowly felt like I could pick myself back up and once again, leave the umbrella at home.
