Consider the work of God;
For who can make straight what He has made crooked?

Ecclesiastes 7:13

I love nature. Mountains, the bush, wilderness areas, gnarly old trees. All of it. It is messy but so beautiful.
God made all this, He created exactly that way -  It is an ordered chaos, He made it all.

I look around the room I am sitting in - you know what I see? 

Straight lines

People love straight lines. Obsessed with them even. It is like everything we do and make is made from straight lines.
I go to an art museum and admire abstract paintings - imprisoned in square frames...our world is made from straight lines.

God’s nature is very different from ours...the dimensions we inhabit are a creation of His, the rules and limits we follow just don't apply to Him.

It is little wonder He will not comply with my nice straight lines. Creation is the more majestic for it. 
God is unconstrained, He is wild, and on the loose, untamable. 

What we should expect when relating to Him?

He is the creator, there is purpose...
Part of that purpose is to get to a destination, but most of it is about the journey and our encounter with God along the way. This is the one who "walked in the cool of the evening" in the garden. He takes pleasure from His work, His creation. That includes us.
We find before too long that His way is rather different from ours...

I often find I Prepare for one way, but God takes me another.
He didn't change His mind, but I make the mistake of drawing a line between the few dots I see. I want to walk in a straight line from here to there. 
Well, those lines were of my creation, a product of my limits in understanding and nature.

Acts 17:24-28. The purpose of our limits is so we encounter God, and walk with Him

“God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being"

As we get to know Him, and seek to understand His will for our lives our human-ness immediately draws a straight line from here to there.  We must understand that God rarely draws a straight line in our lives. He delights to create from chaos.

Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

There is a difference between the lamp of God and the Light of God. God give vision and make promises, milestones to aspire to. That is the light to your path. It is distant.

But it is rarely a straight line to get there...the lamp is required to illuminate the next step. 
That is where we find Him. In the intimate place of our daily decisions, our daily walk.

Scripture tells us how to walk with God…

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.

Proverbs 3:5-6

Walking this way requires trust. It doesn't discount understanding but simply acknowledges we cannot lean on it. Why? Our understanding is always incomplete, dependent on straight lines. 

Expect God to direct you and trust His hand and ability to use each and every situation

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Romans 8:28

Our preoccupation with straightness can cause us to overlook where He may be working…,

So this is what I do, this is how my plans look now:

Plan B: This is my planing, based on what I understand. Nice and tidy.

Plan A: God interrupts plan B!