Is it wrong to trust God to turn a mistake you made into something good? I feel like it is, but I feel like it's wrong to feel like that...
Everything happens for a reason, I believe that with everything I am.
But even things that are in my control?
The mistakes and choices I make- do I make them for a reason, or because I make them, does God then come up with a reason?
Destiny, fate, and God's will is hard to grasp.
How do we know the difference between what's destined to be and our own will?
The way I see it, we're all on our own planned path.
On that path there are roadblocks, detours, valleys, hills, boulders, furry animals, etc., (a.k.a. blessings and trials) that were placed there for a reason.
Also along this path are choices, or forks in the road in which one way leads to something different than the other.
This is where I get lost... what if you choose the wrong path?
Is a completely different plan and purpose created? Or does this path eventually converge back with the original plan?
The great thing is, no matter which way we choose, we're most likely unaware whether it was the right choice or not because life moves along, the path keeps going, and we have no idea where it's going.
We don't know when it meets up with the original, and we don't know if it doesn't, and we don't know if we're even on the wrong or right path.
Which brings me to another question: Is there a 'wrong' or 'right' path?
The 'right' path, I think, is the original. If both options at the fork in the road are beneficial and in tune with what you believe morally, then I think both are right.
The 'wrong' path, I think, is anything but the original.
Because of our free-will, we have the option to step off this path at any point in time and trudge through the wilderness.
In doing that, we miss the hills and furry animals on the original path.
So back to my first question: do we eventually find our way back to the original, or is a new path created because of our choice to step off the original?
I just don't know, and I don't think I ever will. Sigh.
