It wasn’t the call Lindsey Bell expected to get. She and her husband had just learned they were pregnant again, and joy had barely begun to bloom before it was cut down by loss. Four miscarriages followed—each one another layer of grief, confusion, and soul-deep disappointment.
“I didn’t understand why God was allowing this to happen,” the author of Unbeaten shared. “I believed He could fix it. I begged Him to. But He didn’t. And that wrecked me for a while.”
Loss wasn’t the plan. Heartache wasn’t supposed to be part of the picture. Like so many of us, Lindsey found herself staring at the broken pieces of what she thought her life would look like, trying to figure out how to move forward—and how to keep trusting God’s plan when it felt like everything was falling apart.
The Illusion of Control
There’s this subtle belief many of us carry: if we do things “right,” life will turn out a certain way. We work hard, pray faithfully, show up for others, and expect that at some point, we’ll be rewarded with the life we dreamed of. But when the job falls through, the diagnosis shows up, or the relationship crumbles—what then?
“Pain forced me to face the truth,” Lindsey said. “I realized I was trusting more in my plan than in God’s. And when it didn’t happen the way I thought it would, I spiraled.”
It’s a gut-punch moment, but also an invitation. When life doesn’t go as planned, we’re gently (or not so gently) ushered into a deeper trust. Not trust that everything will magically work out, but trust in the One who holds it all.
Trusting God’s Plan in the Chaos
Trust isn’t passive. It’s not tossing our hands in the air with a sigh and deciding not to care. Real trust is active. It’s clinging. It’s choosing—over and over—to believe that God is still good even when life is not. And trusting God’s plan means releasing the idea that our peace is rooted in everything going the way we want.
“I got to the place where I had to say, ‘God, I don’t get this. I don’t like it. But I’m going to choose to believe You’re still writing something good,’” Lindsey explained. “And the more I leaned into Him, the more I found hope again.”
That’s the heartbeat of her devotional, Unbeaten—meeting readers in their disappointment and pointing them back to the faithfulness of God. Page after page, she invites women to wrestle honestly with their pain, while still trusting God’s plan.
What If It’s Still Not What You Hoped?
Here’s the truth: sometimes healing doesn’t look like resolution. Sometimes the story stays messy, and you’re left holding both the beauty and the broken. And that’s okay.
“God didn’t fix it the way I wanted,” Lindsey said. “But He did meet me in it. And that changed everything.”
Maybe you’re sitting in the middle of unmet expectations, or wading through a life that looks nothing like what you dreamed. Maybe you’re tired of asking, why is this happening? If so, this is for you.
God is still here.
His love hasn’t changed.
His presence hasn’t left.
And even now, especially now, you can keep trusting God’s plan.
Need to dig more into how to trust God’s plan? Read the first chapter of Unbeaten today!
