Potatoes in MY peas!

A few weeks ago, prior to the flood that had us held up in the house for a week. My peas were starting to get pretty tall. I wanted to weed them really good and hoe around them once before they got so big they bloomed and I might knock the blooms or fragile new pea pods off. There are 3 nice straight rows, not to many, just a few to eat right away. My plan was to plant some more in the fall and maybe can or freeze them. As I made my way down the row I pulled up many different kinds of weeds, some i recognized, some I didn't, but I knew they weren't peas. The sun was hot that day but I enjoyed the work, listening to the goats, and tiny frogs. Smelling the wild flowers, feeling the breeze was a refreshing in the warm sun. As I made my way down the row hoeing and weeding I found a plant I recognized. It was a potato! I didn't plant a potato there.... Well, at least not this year. I did have potatoes in this spot last year. I must have miss one, and now here it was growing in MY pea patch. I started to pull it up. The gardener in me wouldn't let me, however I thought about it. I couldn't see pulling up a perfectly good plant. It wasn't really hurting anything. BUT I thought about going back and pulling it up, it didn't belong there. This was a PEA patch after all. Then God used this to remind me about many times in my life. There are so many time, when I start a project, mind you, it is always a GOOD thing. I start the project and suddenly it takes a different path or someone or something I didn't plan ends up in the middle of MY project. Those things that show up, have always been sent by God. The true thing that was supposed to be my project in the first place. Instead of God putting a potato in MY pea patch, I had put peas in God's potato patch. Why is it that we plan, then expect God to show up and make it all great!! Why are we surprised when he doesn't show up, or throws something unexpected in our plan? Now I am not suggesting that God didn't want me to plant my peas in the place. I am quite sure God did not care that my peas were there. I am not even sure he put the potato there, but I am completely convinced that he used the potato. The potato was to remind me not to make any plans or start any projects without checking with him first. My life is HIS garden anyway, I am only caretaker. I did leave the potato, as a reminder.... I hope you plant your peas in HIS pea patch. God Bless!