That would be convenient. It's also not true.
I've spent a good part of my adult life making plans, solving problems, raising people, working, loving God, and assuming that if I was thoughtful enough I could generally keep the story moving in the right direction. That was cute.
I've lived through plot twists I was thankful for and others I would have happily skipped. I've had times when God felt close and times when I had some fairly pointed questions. I've learned that faith and frustration can sit at the same kitchen table.
I'm a mother, writer, businesswoman, sister, friend, and a person who still occasionally discovers she's wandered into the None of My Business column. Grace & Plot Twists grew out of that tension. I wanted a place for women who didn't need to be told to have more faith. They needed room to tell the truth about the life they were in, and maybe a practical way to figure out what to do next.
I'm not here to explain your life to you. I don't know why your plot twist happened. I'm here to tell the truth about what it feels like after the story changes, to make useful and beautiful things for the days that follow, and to keep making room for God without pretending every question has been answered.
More kitchen table than stage. More honest note than devotional conclusion.
A really good plot twist doesn't only change the ending. It changes how you see the whole movie. Suddenly earlier scenes make sense, or at least look different. Life can do that too. Sometimes you get clarity later. Sometimes you don't. Either way, the story has changed.
I chose the name Grace & Plot Twists because that is, more or less, how my life has gone. I've made plans. I've prayed over plans. I've been very sure I knew how the next chapter should read. Life has not always cooperated.
Some twists have broken my heart. Some have made me angry. Some I would have returned immediately, receipt or no receipt. Others became gifts I couldn't see when they first arrived. Some protected me from things I couldn't see at the time. Some brought new opportunities that would never have existed inside the original plan. And a few changed the way I understood everything that came before.
Through all of it, God has offered me more grace than I can begin to describe. I've also learned, slowly, that I need to offer some of that grace to myself. Grace for not knowing. Grace for changing. Grace for getting tired. Grace for not having a spiritual takeaway by Friday. Grace for being a person in the middle of a story I did not write.
So when another twist comes, the best I know to do is call it what it is: plot twist. Then I figure out what's mine to do, what's not mine to carry, and what I need to hand back to God.
That is Grace & Plot Twists.
