It’s easy to assume that my past suffering and sin have disqualified me from God’s best for my future. That the world, the flesh and the devil have somehow successfully conspired to derail me from God’s absolute best purpose for my life. But Hagar’s story shows (again and again) that there is no such thing as a Plan B for those chosen by God. Whenever I lose my bearings and return to him, he simply finds a way to map a new Plan A. He recalibrates, like a GPS, to give revised directions to my original destination. I rejoice that the Lord sees me not as the person I was, nor even as the person I currently am, but as the person I am becoming in and through his Son Jesus Christ.

(from Lectio 365, Morning Prayer, 3.12.25)