Before

 before you learned to trust God's plan, you:

• measured his love by how quickly he answered
• treated unanswered prayers like rejection
• forced doors open that he was trying to close
• compared your timeline to everyone around you
• confused delay with denial
• planned everything and trusted nothing
• prayed but kept one hand on the wheel just in case

after you learned to trust God's plan, you:

• recognize a closed door as protection, not punishment
• rest in the waiting instead of fighting it
• stop trying to control what was never yours to manage
• understand this his timing is not slow - it's precise
• pray and then actually let go
• look back at the "no's" with gratitude
• trust the process even when you can't see the plan

~jacqueline whitney