The Back-up Plan...a movie starring Jennifer Lopez. Sure before this movie existed, we all have heard that term, "well, what's your back-up plan" usually from our parents, or friends, mentors, etc...if your walking down path A and that doesn't seem to work, what will you do next? The interesting thing about life is that you can plan, and plan, and plan, but sometimes, well many times, God has a totally different plan for you. A plan that would require you to have a little faith in him..to know that he is ultimately going to lead you the right way.
Sure, it doesn't mean, don't ever make plans, yes, make your plans, but don't be surprised when life throws you a 180 turn, and have you going a totally different direction, different career, different spouse, different state, different hairstyle (you might go shave your head one day, just because you felt compelled to) different house, a different everything. Sure, for many women, they may have clutched to that dream of fall in love...get married..have a baby..1, 2 and a 3.
Now, if only life were that simple. While you think that you may be going in that direction, life may say, nope, he's not the one, or fellas, she's not the one...and you may end up single, at the drop of a dime...wondering what happen to all your plans? Then life could at the same turn as you go on live life, love every minute of it..just when you think, I'm not worried about falling in love again...and then boom, God could send you the love of your life...a true peaceful, serene love that you have never felt before. Something that feels so good, you almost want to run because it feels like a fallacy.
It could be that career that you had planned, perhaps you were an engineer, a doctor, a street sweeper, a dentist, a cashier, ...then you may have planned to take your life to the next level...to pursue the next level of your job. But, boom, life throws a major blow to you, you lose your job. Well where do you go next?
You search, and search trying to find out what it is that you can do that falls into your plans...and perhaps along the way, you may go from a doctor to a baker, an engineer to a CEO of an eco-friendly company, a street sweeper to a lawyer, a dentist in America to one of the poorest countries in the world to help give wonderful people beautiful smiles, or from a cashier to an actress.
Simply the thing is in life, is that you may always have back-up plans, you may plan for days, months and years...but life already has a plan for you that you may have simply not figured out yet, it may take time to reveal to you.
So while you sit in your cubicle tomorrow, or in your huge office with a beautiful sky view, or at your cash register, or in your work vehicle, or in your car, essentially wherever you are...Think, do you have back-up plans? What if everything you have ever worked for, came crashing down around you, would you have the faith to stand up, start again anew, letting God lead you in the right direction. Are you going to lead the next digital revolution, will you create the next iPod, will you be the next leader for peace the next Dr. Martin Luther King, the next Bill Gates? Who will you use your power to be?
We all have a power locked inside of us, a power that is so much more powerful than just one "plan," plan to have many plans, but when those plans don't pan out, don't blame yourself, don't let anyone blame you, just know, just truly know that God has a bigger plan for you. You may hear many motivational speakers, who claim to know all about life, plans, but what they fell to realize when you are in the "real world" plans don't always work out, so what we all need to understand is that things may go excellent for some, straight ahead on their life paths, as they planned, but for you, God may say, "Hey, I have a different plan for you instead of what Jack is doing, you will do this, go this way, live here, teach this, or speak this."
So whatever it is that your heart truly desires...do it. We have one life...one moment to be that dream, to live that dream. Never stop dreaming, no matter how big, no matter if no one has the mental capacity to envision what you see for yourself..keep dreaming..keep planning, and if you have to, do some re-planning when A, B, C or D don't pan out...you never stop walking towards your true passions.
Just know that in your one moment that may seem dark, you may be lonely, you may even lose a few friends, but hey, if you lose anybody, you have to think what were they there for in the start anyways...And if you surround yourself with positive people it does make a difference...don't spend time with those that say "you can't" spend time with those that say "you can." Don't spend time with those that seek to blame you, spend time with those who seek to "help you" reach the dreams that you have locked inside. Because when you have encouragement, peace, clarity that is the greatest help you could ever ask for.
So I say to you...Give love, be love, see love, get love....be the love that you wish to have. Be the plan that you wish to execute..be all the dreams and plans...you never can go wrong in life when you try. In life it is not always about what you accomplish, but what you try and accomplish. So, you completed a movie, it wasn't the best at the box office, well you completed it, you just sit back down, write some more, start again. So, you may be in high school, and you studied and studied for that final or that ACT and didn't get the score you hoped for, you completed it, now the next one that comes around, do better, believe you can be better.
Start, what you finish and finish what you start, don't put yourself in the hands of time, yet let the hands of time work for you...to complete what your heart truly desires...don't let others speed you up, or slow you down. Visualize, what you want, do it, and if you are lead down another path, just know, that the journey, is another lesson locked inside to lead you ultimately right where you are truly meant to be.
So if you ask me personally, do you have back-up plans, I will always say, of course! Quite a few:) Do you?