“The Plans He Knows”

Home from Mass, with a warm cup of tea in my hands, I glance up at this small framed piece I painted back in 2020 ~ one of the first after returning to creativity.

It was a tender time, full of uncertainty and fragile hope. Yet somehow, this simple image of the open Word and the rosary resting upon it spoke of trust before I fully understood it.

Today, it reminds me again of Jeremiah 29:11 ~ “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord.

He knew them then. He knows them now.

Even when we can’t see the whole picture, His promise is already unfolding.

As I look at this painting, the open Word, the rosary resting across its pages I remember how uncertain that season was when I painted it. My hands were still trembling with both longing and fear from so much more than the pandemic. Yet somehow, even then, God was quietly guiding me back to life, inviting me to create again, to trust again.

The verse from Jeremiah 29:11 has become more than a promise I hold onto it’s become a rhythm I live within. The plans He has for us often unfold in the small, unseen moments: the gentle return to something we once loved, the steady hand of grace when we don’t know the way forward.

Sometimes faith looks like picking up the brush again, perhaps opening an unread page or whispering a prayer into the unknown believing that God already knows the way home.

Journal Prompt

Sit for a moment with Jeremiah 29:11.

What plan might God be quietly unfolding in your life right now ~ one that you can’t yet see clearly, but are being gently invited to trust?

Let your pen or brush become a prayer of surrender to that unseen goodness.

xox