to disappoint our plans. Are you kidding me? Disappointment is a mercy? I’m not sure I would have agreed with that statement when I was thirty—but now that I’m thirty-one years further down the trail, I agree with it completely. How would John Newton know about disappointment? In his day he was one of the most famous pastors in England and a hymn writer who was known across the seas. But do you recall that he had to wait on the Lord for six years before his desire to be a pastor was fulfilled? He had