Hello, friends! Today's prompt, courtesy of my brother, is the song "Life Changes" by Thomas Rhett.
I remember my brother telling me once that he loves country music because every song tells a story. Well, this song tells a story all right, and it's a beautiful one. Thomas Rhett tells the story of his family in this song - his wife and his two daughters. Originally, he and his wife planned on adopting a child from Uganda. Just when that came to be, they found out they were expecting a biological child, too. Rhett sings,
"Ain't it funny how life changes? You wake up, ain't nothing the same, and life changes. You can't stop it, just hop on the train and you never know what's gonna happen. You make your plans and you hear God laughing. Life changes, and I wouldn't change it for the world."
Life changes, indeed. From no children to two under two in a very quick time span - that's a heck of a life change!
We can make plans all we want. I've been making some this week, and I feel great about them, but who knows what life changes are heading my way? God hears our plans and laughs because He knows what's best for us.
Sometimes I struggle with that concept, and by sometimes, I mean all the time. If God knows what's best for us, then why have so many bad things happened?
The answer is simple and complicated all at once. The answer is sin. We live in a sinful, broken world with sinful, broken people, and therefore, we're going to experience sinful, broken things. But Thomas Rhett shows us an excellent example here. Just because it wasn't our plan doesn't mean it can't turn out for the better.
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