Releasing Plan B

There is a plan B...a way out...hope.  A way to make a wrong, right...a hurt, healed...darkness, light.  Shine light on something...someone...that is looking to disappear into the darkness...that is plan B.

But could it be that plan B is actually, in some odd and magnificent way, plan A?  The human condition is to see only what lies directly in front of you...what you've calculated...what you strive for...plan A.  

As you watch your dreams shatter, your life unravel it can feel like the end.  Until plan B is unveiled in all its glory.  But maybe that's where you were meant to be anyway.  Life is this journey that will teach you and lead you to exactly where you need to be.  Even what you perceive as mistakes can be used for your good (Romans 8:28)...plan B.

I think of this as I hear the announcement on a busy morning commute...personal injury at track level.  The subway officials do their best to conceal that this injury is actually code...code for the unthinkable...they don't want you to know. Code for the darkness, the cloudiness of mind...someone's plan A for today.  This code is plan B to a seamless morning of train schedules and a rush of commuters...now trains at a stand still and shuttle buses put into place. 

I glace over at the subway poster...shining light on a plan B...it can save a life...if you let it...that's why these posters are plastered all over the platform. I wish I could scream out....don't forget about plan B!  To pierce the many other hearts that may have thought about becoming the personal injury at track level today.  You're not alone. See the signs pointing you to the magnificent plan B.

We need a plan B that can not only save from despair but can shine a light so consuming that plan A cowers...disoriented..unsure of why it ever existed.  

The more I think about it, our Creator is the inventor of plan B....the GLORIOUS plan B.  If he can take all your mistakes and turn them for good...if he can stoop down, take on a mortal body to die and conquer death, only to undo what was tarnished...a death sentence...your death sentence...then I would say YES...he is the author and perfecter of the plan B.  He's put it there so there's a way...life...moving you closer to perfection...his perfection for you.  

But plan B is only beneficial when you reach out and accept it and all the redemption it holds...otherwise the passing away of plan A will become your demise...or perhaps plan A, in and of itself, will be your demise.

And the hands and feet of this plan B are found in the beautiful Created Ones...you...me.  Plan B becomes tangible in the dark when we use our hands...our voice to deliver the hope, the light...on track level or street level...bringing it to eye level. 

It may not have been my plan A to be used as part of this plan B, but my plan A is not what counts...

It's not too late to change your mind...through the life saving plan B.

~wanna read more?  try Jeremiah 29:11

(see pictures at http://pinterest.com/pin/98938523036608715/  http://pinterest.com/pin/98938523036608718/)