I spent my career and still to this day design landscape and it and that includes hardscape. Hardscape would be defined as anything that’s not green and growing such as driveways walkways patios and the like.

These is a slight difference in Hardscape from Landscape in the fact that it’s very exact to the quarter of an inch or less in both radius dimension and all the different angles are associated with building it.

The biggest unknown are the points of the radius which are abstract points in the middle of nowhere against an unknown field and only determined by drawing visible points off of known objects property or house corners.

If look into the photo you’ll see on the left a finish plan that shows all the radius points I’m not evidently clear you can see all the lines crossing intersecting that’s what the plan looks like; very precise.

On the right a blank sheet of paper.

Many times my life is like the sheet of paper on the left where I think I’ve planned out where I’m going or what I’m doing.

In reality it’s more like the blank sheet of paper on the right side: I need live my life by faith and what God has planned for me but I cannot see.

The key is understanding God has written every day of my life and his book of life before everyone began;

  “ My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” (Psalm 139:15-16)

So there I stop in wonder that He knew every step I would take every radius turn every angle forward would take one, yet God gives me free will choose which road to take, and by faith I listen closely for still His quiet voice to know which way to turn.

“He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings”.( psalm 40:2)

By faith I try my best to walk to where He has laid out the path before me… I have to remember where He set my path to be headed towards for all His plans for me are good;

“ 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)

So by faith, and we know that faith is believing in that what you cannot see, I chart the course of my life by that blank sheet of paper knowing that God knew before it all began, that He knew me personally, knew each one of us as the individual masterpieces that He created us to be.

Lord, help me to always remember that my way is not your way that your ways are better than mine that your thoughts are greater than mine, help me to forget my radius points and angles and curves and to listen to you’re still quiet voice to guide me as I walk through life. Amen