I have often heard it said “God will wreck your plans when he sees your plans are about to wreck you,” but until recently never have I known that statement to be more true.

I’ve always been a girl with a goal, and in whatever my doing that goal is pretty much to be the absolute best. However, we all know, that’s impossible. My life and I are far far from perfect, so it’s a colossal waste of my time to try and make it seem that way, but for whatever reason I do still like trying.

A week ago though, it was nothing but a perfect storm. Finals week meant no sleep and plenty of stress. Saying goodbye to my friends for the summer meant sadness. Going through a break-up meant much much more sadness/anger/regret/questioning. The entire thing meant I was going to be riding an emotional rollercoaster that left me feeling like my perfect grades and perfect freshmen year with my perfect friends and perfect boyfriend were now coming down to be nothing but a complete wreck.

It took a literal wreck that my brother had to make me realize I needed to thank God for that. Of course, I was thanking God that my brother was unharmed, but when doing that, life was put into perspective for me.

Perfect or not, it can all be gone in .2 seconds. And if my life is only perfect by my standards or this worlds and not the one who created it, then it has all been for nothing.

So let's say I don't make the perfect grades, and I discover maybe I chose a major and career path that wasn't for me, so what? God has a calling for my life. I have a purpose here. He will put me where I need to be, even if it means he has to wreck my plans first.

So that relationship was far from the perfect one I had deluded myself to see, so what? If God was taking that away from me, there was a reason, and He had more in store. He will put me with who I need to be with, even if it means he has to wreck my plans first.

Wrecks like that, the wrecks of life, are painful, stressful, scary, and eye-opening. They redirect your path and, like the case of the literal wreck, remind you there’s a bigger picture, a bigger world, and a bigger plan than the idea of perfect you might have in your head. At the end of it all now, and as I look back at more moments when life wasn’t going my way, I think thank God for the wrecks in life. I don’t know where I’d be without those moments that change your direction and perspective and put you back on the path he intended you to be.