plan b study (week1)

Currently my Bible study girls and I are starting a new topic/book. we sortof got behind with So Long Insecurity, and since the bachelorette has started up again...we probably would have gotten more behind or off track. but i am loving the new book we have picked, which is Plan B by Pete Wilson. here is what the book says about him to give you a little background of the author. and we heard about him from kairos:
"Pete Wilson is the lead pastor of Cross Point Church in Nashville, TN. Pete aspires to lead churches to become radically devoted to Christ, irrevocably committed to 1 another, and relentlessly dedicated to reaching those outside of God's family".
and random side fact my friend told me is Pete is the dad in the Taylor Swift "Mine" video. small world.
anyway, I heard about Pete from Kairos...he spoke one night about plan b- which is also the series that kairos started a while ago. the main theme i am seeing throughout the beginning of this book is encouragement...and also the common scenario or occurrence in peoples' lives. we all have "plans" and things we hope and want for ourselves at any given time in our lives...such as "i am (this age) and thought i would be married with a family" "i am (this age) and thought i would be done with college by now starting a career" "i thought i would know what i am doing with my life by now, i am such and such age" "i thought my marriage would have turned out differently" "i thought my kids would have turned out differently than they did". i think as humans we all process different scenarios, obviously, based on what we picture for our lives or what we want them to turn out to be. i know in high school, maybe even college, my "plan" was have a career, be married, and have a family...my plan for my life was to be married at such and such age. another common thread Pete talks about is how easy it is to look around and compare our lives to someone else's and even if we're not "comparing" we may just look at others our age or in our category and think- man, they have it all together. they have a house. they have an awesome job. they have a family. they are married. etc. they look like they have their lives together. but what i am learning not just from this book but from just living and being with people is that EVERYONE has a plan of some kind, which we'll say is "plan A" but somehow we are living plan B, C, D, E, etc. so what i hope over the next weeks is as my Bible study friends and i go through this book, that we will see deep encouragement and the Lord really growing and working out our trust in Him alone...and i don't think that we as Christians really doubt He actually EXISTS, but somehow and sometimes we doubt if He's going to show up when we want Him to reveal His plan or we doubt His timing we doubt His ways and we doubt if He really has a plan. we want Him to reveal. we want Him to clearly and plainly show up in our lives. SO i hope this book will be encouraging and ultimately will deepen our trust in HIM.
there are so many interesting eye-openers (at least for me) in this book and i recommend everyone get it! i am only in the beginning of it and already can't put it down. i have a lot of things i want to share in the blog about it....so this is to be continued.
happy thursday- almost the weekend!