Welcome to the Chaplain’s Corner

August 2019

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

The most difficult situation for many of us to handle is the uncertainty of our future. We have the need to try and plan everything down to the most minutiae of details. While planning is excellent, we must be open to the unexpected of “life happening.” When it does, understand that God has it already figured out. He knew this would happen before it did.

Everything that occurs is part of the bigger plan that God has for us. Amid the storm there is always a rainbow of promise. We have the same rainbow in our lives when the bad things happen to good people. The plan is for us to prosper and to give us a hope for a future. When we realize that every situation is leading us to our destination of blessings, hopefully we will see the beauty in life with all the challenges it brings. Because with challenges comes the ability to grow wiser and become stronger as God allows us to walk into our purpose and our future.

Blessings,

Reverend Takana L. Jefferson, Chaplain, United States Navy