When your world is shaken, when the plans and dreams you’ve created, perhaps even banked on, get obliterated, when the path on which you walk is moving in an unknown and a particularly unwanted direction, what do you do? Better yet, what do you hold on to? I knew in that moment, I had to hold on to truth. It was the only solid ground I had. I had to remember what God said. And I would have to do this over and over and over again. I brought to mind Bible verses that I was taught growing up and that I’ve held on to over the years, like Jeremiah 29:11: “ ‘For I know the plans that I have for
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