I have recently been going through a rough patch in my life, to the point that I could not talk to God, whom I love with all my heart. I had broken my leg and had to spend a month in a hospital over fifty miles from home and my financial situation was dire.  I was a broken man. Alone with just my thoughts for most of the day, and the more I thought about things the more broken I felt.

I looked forward in anticipation to every visitor or every appointment I needed to go to, just to be with another person so that I didn’t have to think about the feelings locked inside.  For so long I had followed my head and not my heart, I had refused to accept words of wisdom from the people that I love.

I suppose the truth of the matter is that the strongest feeling I had was anger, not with God but with me. After all my poor financial situation and poor health, are all results of the decisions that I have made in the past.

Decisions to follow my head and not my heart have resulted in me going against God's will and plans for my life. This doesn’t mean of course that God has turned his back on me or has stopped loving me; in fact it’s quite the opposite.

Sometimes things go wrong in life, there are far too many outside influences on this earth for everything that we do to go according to our plans. We have to realise that God has the power to turn situations to his advantage.

I know that God will heal me and I also know that God will bless me with the finances to improve my financial situation because in Jeremiah 29:11 God says “For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”.

Recently I have realised that God has brought me in a full circle.

God has shown me that even if you stray from the plan he has made for you, it does not mean that the plan is forgotten, there is just another route to take to fulfil it.

I have no regrets, after all I cannot change the past but I can look forward to the future. A future where I can Serve the Lord with all my heart, mind and soul; what could be better!!

By Pete Pimlott