What do you do when what you want isn't what God wants?

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What do you do when what you want isn't what God wants. Years ago, I was dating this girl in college and I thought she was going to be my wife. I mean, there were some things we didn't agree on, but everybody has that. Now, at the end of college, we ran into some tension. We've been dating for some time. She graduated the year before me and she wanted to see some progress in our relationship. So, I said, "Let's move back to my hometown, move in with my family, and see where this goes." Now, I did have dreams to go back to college, get my master's degree, pursue these other achievements, but making this move with her felt like the only way to keep her in my life. So we did that and a year later she left me. Said the relationship wasn't moving forward fast enough. So out of desperation to keep her, I bought an engagement ring and left it outside of her window and she said it was too late. So what do you do when what you want isn't what God wants. Take delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. I didn't get what I wanted. I questioned if this was even real. But after she left me, obviously I had a lot of time to myself and with God. And I realized I had spent so much time away from him. stopped talking to him, asking him what he wants me to do. Reading the Bible, first half of the verse says, "Take delight in the Lord." I wasn't doing that. So, I started to pray, "God, bring her back." And since it talked about desires of the heart, I said, "God, bring her back or take this out of me." And then she said she didn't want to talk to me anymore. And when I brought that to God, I felt like he just gave me two words. Be patient. And then one day, I realized, take delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. It doesn't mean he'll give you what you want. He means he will give you the desires, place them in your heart. Although there was no immediate progress, other things started to happen in my life. I got new friends, got to see God move in these little things. Started to document those little things. Fast forward a year and this girl got engaged to somebody that she had met at work during the time we were together. Of course, I was crushed. Prayed for God to reverse it. But also, so much had started to happen. I'd seen God start to do so many things. And I kept hearing those words, "Be patient." So, I just started to do the things that God put in front of me. Eventually, that feeling left my heart. And although I thought she was the best thing for me, I started to consider what if God actually had something better. Well, years later, I would come across Elevation Church, hear about how the lead pastors didn't kiss until their wedding day, feel prompted to do that, but I never lived like that. And then a friend randomly sent me an article about a husband and wife not kissing till their wedding day. And I'm like, is this what you really want, God? Cuz I don't have that desire in my heart. But take delight in the Lord. Trust in him. So, I committed to it. That same week, someone named Megan would move from Texas back to where I was in Pennsylvania. Six months later, she'd walk into a church I was a part of. We'd become friends in October, hang out in November, have our first date in December, engaged in January, married in March, and one year after I made that commitment, we'd kiss for the first time on our wedding day. I knew that God sent her to me, and she was the something better that I couldn't have predicted when that other girl left me. So, what do you do when what you want isn't what God wants? Take the light in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Watch him turn what you want into what he wants and see how it's so much greater than you could have ever imagined. God bless you.