"If
I had my choice, I probably would've
gotten
married in my twenties,
had
three kids, and never left my hometown.
Sometimes
life doesn't work out the way
we
wish it would."
Words
were spoken like I've heard before
'I
won't ever marry a man, and when I have
children
I'll teach them to not marry either.'
Thus
sayeth a senior girl in my typing class
(I
and one other were the only boys enrolled)
which
shocked a farm boy like me.
Later
I read in the paper when the girl above
had
married that summer a fellow who drove
a
batch truck for the paving gang making the
new
highway to a neighboring town.
Later still, I
read of the birth that fall of a baby
boy to the
couple.
The
author of the book from which I quoted,
then married, did
have a child, at the age
of
forty-two.
Things don't often, seldom, work
out like
our plans.
I
didn't plan things, never did. Instead when
there
is an open door of opportunity I evaluate
choices and most often have taken the good ones.
I
ended up not rich but have retired well enough
off
to have retired many years now. All my
degrees aren't helping me now but they did produce
quite
well.
Moral
of the story from my book, the author
was
telling, "God has a plan for us" and it may
differ
greatly from our own.
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Notes:
1. The
book I'm reading is “Mostly What God Does”
written
by Savannah Guthrie. The words I have used here
are to
be found in Chapter 4, titled “Like a Mother”.
2. My
“Prose Poem” has 290 words not counting the title
but counting the author's quotation from the book.
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