Austin was playing independently for a few minutes this morning (I know, a minor miracle in and of itself!) with his construction toys. As I was eating my breakfast, he popped up on the bannister between the kitchen and the family room and held up a miniature road sign. "Mom. What does this say?" "It says, 'Men at Work'."
A couple of moments later, the same thing... "It says 'Detour'."
"What's that?"
"It's when you have to go a different way that you had planned to go. You know, like when they are working on a road, and you have to take a different road?"
"Oh. Yeah." And he hopped back down to play some more.
When you go a different way than you planned to go. As soon as the words left my mouth, it occurred to me that it was also a good description of life. Sometimes, things happen like we plan. But most of the time? Detours.
Thank God that life doesn't always happen the way we plan it... and that detours aren't always a inconvenience. Sometimes the most incredible blessings happen on detours.
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