"Does life always turn out the way you think it will?"

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A guy is walking past a big wooden fence that surrounds a preschool playground. He hears all of the preschoolers chanting, “Thirteen! Thirteen! Thirteen!” in their cute little voices. He figures they’re learning to count and that some creative teacher has taken them outside and using a novel technique. He’s wishing his preschool teacher had done that instead of making him sit at his desk and learn to count.

Well, just then he notices a hole in the fence. It’s just big enough to allow him to look over onto the playground and see what the kids are doing. So he stops, stoops down, and puts his eye up to the hole to look in. Someone pokes him in the eye. And then all the children start chanting, “Fourteen! Fourteen! Fourteen!”

Life doesn’t always turn out the way you think it will, does it? Even when you’re innocent and your motives are pure!

Today when something you didn’t see coming happens to you, step back, take a breath, and ask God for help.

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