It's a trust issue

So, my friends and I are all really and unfortunately obsessed with finding our husbands. Typical freshman girls, right? Thanks, college. Anyways, we've all thought we've found some guy who is worth our hearts and have, in some way or another, obsessed over, talked about, talked to, and thought about way too much. We build these beautiful little fantasies in our minds that show us getting two rings in 4 years, one for each hand. Let's just say that the Aggie ring isn't the only one on our minds. And then all of these little plans and cute thoughts and time spent involving this boy comes crashing down, normally with tears and anger and more heartbreak than we'd like to admit.

In short, the four of us came into college expecting what every girl expects: to find our husband.

But that's our plan. Our misguided, cliche, painful, wistful plan. And our plan, in the end, won't get us very far. And where it does get us will get us on the wrong path in the wrong direction. It's like we'll be going south when we're supposed to be headed northeast. It just wouldn't be right.

So what is right?

I guess the better question would be "Who is right?" and the answer is simple: God. The knower of our hearts and the writer of the eternal storybook. He penned the tale that we're living. So He knows exactly what's going to happen.

The real issue that my friends and I are coming across is actually trusting that His story is better than anything on Oprah's booklist or the Times' top 10. We can read those books; we can't read God's. It's not something you buy at Barnes and Noble. It's something that leaves you hanging and wanting more. At least, that's how we're supposed to be. Unfortunately, we have a bad habit of not thinking that it's exciting enough or that it isn't going the way it should, so we start trying to rewrite it. Ever tried to rewrite a published book? Probably didn't work out so well, right? That's because the author knew his or her plan for the story and, even if you didn't like it, that's how it was and, if it was written well, everything came together.

Let me assure you, God is a master storyteller. His stories are flawless. Everything is purposeful and nothing is an accident. Characters will come and go. Stories have high points and low points. We have to trust that everything is meant to be how it is. And when we don't know the general outline of the story, it's hard to trust that everything will come together.

But it will.

God has this beautiful story for us that He made specifically for everyone.

The hard part is trusting that His is perfect and our's is not.