A gospel-focused lifestyle blog

Many of us have expectations for our lives. There’s really not a way to avoid it completely. We make goals and plans with the expectation that it might be possible to achieve them. I’m planning this with the hopes that my situation will turn out like that. Expectations can be tightly grasped with eyes fixed on the expectation itself, or they can loosely held with eyes focused on the Father. Expectations that are unmet can be very disappointing, depending on how hard our grasp around the expectation is. The disappointing situations themselves can vary from mild (it rained at...