I recently spoke to someone dear to me. He got unexpectedly divorced and he told me he needs to slow down and think about what he’s going to do with his life. He needs to rest. He’d been busy being a father and a husband. With his wife gone and his kids soon off to college, he would like to focus on himself.
I invited him to go to the Philippines. Be away for a while. Stay at the beach, enjoy the water, just be still, be silent. Sometimes when we plan too much, things don’t happen the way we expected them to be. Sometimes too, we don’t make any plans and things fall into place. God sends happy surprises too to relieve us of our worries.
