Sometimes, things don’t go the way we think. Disappointment can overwhelm us from time to time. In 1858 the Illinois legislature - using an obscure statute - sent Stephen A. Douglas to the U.S. Senate instead of Abraham Lincoln, although Lincoln had won the popular vote. When a sympathetic friend asked Lincoln how he felt, he said, “Like the boy who stubbed his toe: I am too big to cry and too badly hurt to laugh.”
Even though things didn’t work out for Mr. Lincoln in this situation, it did for our nation. God had an alternate plan for him and our nation. Let’s embrace disappointment as a potential course correction for God’s plan.
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