Memory Verse

Well, I haven't exactly kept up with my plan to memorize a verse every week, but I'm okay with it.  After my day today (see the post below), this verse so jumped at me and I had to choose it to be "the one" this week.

In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.

Proverbs 16:9

Well, that definitely resonates with me tonight as I'm reflecting (and laughing with Brian) about my day today.  I find it funny that I still try to "plan" things in my life, thinking that if I plan and organize very carefully that things will go just as I envision.  Ha!  So I love this verse.  God gives us freedom in our choices - knows what we're going to choose, but we get to choose it anyway.  Yet the whole time he has unexpected turns and surprises planned for us, letting us learn and experience what He knows that we NEED to experience and we are often left standing with our mouths wide open wondering what just happened to our nice thought-out plans.  What is really exciting to me about this is when I look back and sometimes get to see how all of the bumps and unexpected turns and surprises were woven together for a purpose that never entered my mind but was God's purpose in me "planning" in the first place. 

So I want to memorize this one and recall it during both the small and the big bumps that I know are going to be in my road at some point and remember who is really in charge!