Dress rehearsal for life

Recently hosting our daughter's wedding we of course had a rehearsal the night before the big day. Changed last minute details and removed a few elements that once were so important to the couple.

We practiced walking.

You'd think we could walk without practice right, me too! 50 years of walking and we still need practice!

Apparently we needed the practice though since we walked the aisle several times. Lucky we walked the aisle and not the plank!

We placed the attendants here and then there and then stood back and admired them all.

Then we walked again.

Grandparents, parents, attendants, then the bride and her daddy.
Ok, cue the tears...

Moving right along.

When the big day came we had adjusted, eliminated, fussed, changed and tweaked, not to be confused with twerked all the elements of the day. We added details all along the way so when the time came we walked, we were pros at walking now, and celebrated all the love the two love birds shared.

Life is kinda like a dress rehearsal. 
Big plans are made to get a degree, marry or purchase a home. Those big plans then boil down to the details. We prepare, eliminate, add to or fuss with the specifics. Tweaking or twerking, your choice here and adjust our dreams to our reality. 

My point is this. 

When you want to build your dream home, you don't start with the paint, you start with a blueprint. This took me forever to learn. I always want to start with the end result without taking into consideration the prep. Primer is your friend. Remember this always. Be it, makeup, nail polish or wall paint. Primer. 

Ask anyone 20 years older than you right now if they are where they planned to be 20 years ago. Most people would agree with me that life has a funny way of starting us on a journey going in one direction only to detour with many twists and turns and adjustments requiring an ever changing  perspective on our part.  

We all have the ability to update the blueprint and meet with the original architect, add a new direction or change locations all together. 

Plan it. 
Rehearse it. 
Change it. 
Walk the aisle.

"Don't wait to celebrate the life you have been given, even if it looks different from the one you thought you would have." 
Jay Wolf

You are the writer of your story, but God is the author.