"For I know the plans I have for you..."

This is a pic from the summer when Alan and I first met. He was on a 2-week mission trip to work with our team in Russia. Having only met there and interacted in the cultural exchange project, neither of us even thought or dreamed of what the future held! We were in completely different places (literally), with completely different lives, but God had a beautiful way of bringing us together for His purposes! Almost three years later, these two thumbs-uppers are married and going to have a baby! God's plans are so much higher and greater than those we have for ourselves!

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." ~Jeremiah 29:11, ESV