Life can be a lot like that. We can pray, plan, and prepare, only to see everything rearranged because of circumstances we can't influence. No matter how careful we may be, problems we couldn't have imagined can leave us rushing to recover. Life can become a mad scramble no matter how faithfully, prayerfully, or righteously we have lived. People we love can become unexpectedly ill, or decide to abandon us, or worse.
Life can become a fractured mess of broken dreams and confusing mayhem.
The real issue is not why these unforeseen messes, challenges, or disasters have touched our world. No, the issue is our faithfulness during those times when things are difficult and the Lord's deliverance seems distant. I am absolutely confident that the Lord longs to bless you in the year ahead. That's his desire. I am absolutely sure that the Lord will bring all of his children to ultimate victory when he returns to take us home with him.