Life Accourding to Plan

The older I get the more I realize how futile it is to try and plan out your life beyond a general to do list of chores and assignments.When I was in high school I thought I had my life all planned out to perfection: Graduate and go to BYU-I where I would graduate in two years with my associates. By that time I would also be married and possibly expecting my first child. We would then go where ever his job took us and life would be perfect.
That was the plan, obviously it failed misserably so I ran to Salt Lake City, UT to try a new plan and lick my wounds and try to regroup and form a new plan which involved getting a massage license. So I went to massage school and I did well, I had a knack for it and everyone said I had soothing hands, only problem was that I didn't really care for it. I'm not a touchy person, hmmm that could be a problem in that field. So I finished massage school and got licensed becaue if nothing else I am not a quitter. So now I had a license to do something I didn't want to do and the student loans to prove it, but still no idea what to do with my life.
So began a series of jobs that taught lots of new skills but didn't excite me at all.
And then it hit me one warm fall day, I love working in the yard, I love plants... what could I do with that? So a new plan was formed and off I went to school to get my bachelors degree, something I'd wanted to do but just didn't know what to get it in. It took one week of classes to know that I was on the right track for once! I loved all of my horticulture classes, they were interesting and exciting to me! I had finally finally found something to study that I could be passionate about! So I got my bachelors degree in Hortuculture emphasis Landscape design, graduating in 2011!
But then a new plan was needed, still no husband, that plan was still proving a failure. So I needed a job and as a new graduate I shared the dream of so many others of landing the dream job. SO I started calling companies, I could go anywhere! I decided that oregon sounded nice, wrong. Apparently Oregon is a dead zone of growth of any kind right now except in the expansion of crazy liberals who apparently want nothing to be built. So Oregon was out. So where is the conquering horticulture graduate working? At a Farm Store/ gas station as a cashier. What a let down. At least I get to help people with chemicals for their lawns.
Now this all seems depressing but I must point out an important factor that has existed throughout all of my failed plans and that is that though all of my plans have failed I have slowly been moving right along in Gods plan for me. At times its been easier to see Gods hand than others but its been there all the same. God's plan didn't have me gettign married like all my firends right out of high school, for some reason He needs me to wait to marry till later in life. He wanted me to study horticulture but he knew that I needed to go a little later so I could meet certain people who wouldn't have been in the program had I started earlier. He knew I needed to go to SLC and massage school to learn about myself, to meet certain people and to learn skills and trust that only massage school could teach me. Gods plan hasn't always been an easy one for me and at times I've fought to have my own way but still I eventually see the wisdom of His path.
There are still things I want to acheive in life, things I want to do but now my plans are more flexible and less set in stone becasue if nothing else I've learned that I have to be flexible in this life, I have to be patient, and I have to above all trust in Gods plan. One day I trust tthat my plans to marry and Gods will merge and I'll be able to marry a man that is just right for me despite all our imperfections. I still plan on having children one day, of owning my own home, of using my horticulture skills and most reacently I have gained two new goals to add to my plans. I want to own my own reception center and gardens and I want to try and create a home that is fairly self sufficent... growing and canning much of the food my family eats, perhaps a milk cow and chickens so my family can eat fresh milk, butter, cheese, yogurt and eggs. Perhaps I'll raise cows for meat, though someone esle will have to butcher them for me.
So here I go,making new (more flexible) plans (without specific deadlines) and set out on this new chapter of my life as a graduate in an unsteady economy, seeking to use my skills and follow my plans for what I want to acheive, do and become in my life. Despite challenges, set backs and dissapointments in the past I have experienced lots of joy and had many wonderful experiences and I am sure that the future will bring many more such moments that I could never have planned on, but that were all a part of God's plan all along!