God's Best - Terri Cullins

“For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you.” Jeremiah 29:11

When your plans don’t include God, they often get changed. I recently self-published a children’s book about mental retardation, and I asked God to open new doors for me to walk through and present my work. As new doors begin to open, I found myself complaining about having so many events to attend. Instead of complaining, I should have said thank you to God for answering my prayers and showing me his favor.

I often ask for God’s will in my life. Yet when he reveals to me his will, at times I find it difficult to accept. Jeremiah tells us, “For I know the plans that I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you.” I’ve learned God doesn’t need my help to fulfill his will in my life. He wants me to trust him.

Learning to embrace and accept the will of God in my life is hard. Yet when I began to let God have his way, He carried me through. I began to see His blessings flow. God blesses his children to be a blessing to others.

For the past several months, I’ve searched for employment working with children. I prayed for to God’s guidance, direction, and asked for His will to be done. I assumed I would be blessed with a job working with children. Instead, I was offered a job working with adults who are chronically homeless. Although, I asked for God’s will to be done I had hoped His will included working with children. My desires weren’t aligned with his plan or purpose for me. As I accepted the position, I learned to trust God would lead me to prosperity of the heart.

How do we accept God’s will in our life? What if our desires are different than what God wants? I have to trust God to be God and let Him take me to levels beyond my imagination. I must armor myself with His word and know in my heart God will never leave me.

God’s serendipity allows us to receive better rewards than we would have received had we obtained the goals and plans we designed for ourselves. Our goals have a finish line and an ending point, but God love for us and his plans are eternal. Seek His Heart.

Terri Cullins is a native of Orange County, California. She has been married 18 years and has recently moved to Orange where she will retire at the end of the school year from her Home School Facilitator position. She has a high school age daughter and a junior high school age son. She plans to devote more time to writing and getting her craft ideas out of her head and into real objects.

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What Happened to Sam?

by Terrienna L. Cullins

More than a children’s book, What Happened to Sam, will benefit adult readers as well. Willenaand her brother, who has mental retardation. This story focuses on her struggle to accept his difference. Willena is often asked what is wrong with her brother. She is a fifth grader, and her younger brother, Sam, attends the same elementary school. She loves her brother but wishes everyone would see Sam as she does. At times, Willena is ashamed of her brother, but she eventually understands that Sam has mental retardation and that shouldn't change her love for him. Our society is often afraid of what they don’t understand. What Happened Sam provides an approach for helping children understand mental retardation and how it affects every individual in the family.

ISBN-13: ISBN: 978-0-8059-7928-2 [E-book]