In your wildest dreams, how many of you planned from childhood on being in the position you are in today? Did you think – when you were ten years old – that you would have ended up in Palatine or wherever you live? Did you dream of working the same monotonous job – or of being President? None of us plan on having back problems. We don’t plan to live paycheck-to-paycheck. We don’t always plan on having children or getting married or many other things. This isn’t the way we planned it. But it’s not an accident either. In the back of our minds we realize that there are no accidents in life. Proverbs 16:9 says,

“The heart of man plans his way,
but the Lord establishes his steps.”

We know in the end that God is in control. Like it or not – God put us here. God gave you your job. He gave you your spouse. He gave you your health. He directs what happens – seemingly good or bad. So the question is – “How do we get through the storms of life?” Let’s talk about it…