it doesn't happen that way

have you seen alton brown's new road food show where he tools across the country on a motorcycle in 30 days and stops at all these out of the way restaurants to eat their specialty? it's pretty cool. they solicited public opinion on places that had great "road food" - restaurants, bars, etc - and then plotted out a 30 day trip from east coast to west coast based on the places they would stop. isn't life kind of like that - where we plan it out - we're born, we go to school, then maybe college or some other training, then we work for many years, and then retire and then we . . . but, it rarely works out as we planned, doesn't it? it just doesn't always seem to happen that way. it didn't with alton either - the wipeout on the back road wasn't in the agenda. life has a way of throwing curves or whatever - yeah, even a bean ball from time to time. you know what's really nice though, God's plan always happens the way He intended.