Punchline of the Universe

I said, “Here’s my five-year plan”

Color-coded in my hand

Calendar and bullet points

Prayers like polished talking points

I told heaven how it’d go

Neatly mapped from A to O

Guardrails on my little road

Like I’d read the secret code

If you wanna make God laugh

Tell Him what you’re gonna do next

Lay out every little step

Like you wrote the architect’s text

If you wanna hear that smile

Shaking through the sky above

Say, “I’ve got this all worked out”

And watch Him answer back with love

I said, “I’ll never fall again”

Signed my name beneath that claim

Met a stranger on a train

Now my heart don’t sound the same

I swore I’d stay in this small town

Roots so deep, I’d never bounce

Then a door I’d never knock

Opened like a ticking clock

If you wanna make God laugh

Tell Him what you’re gonna do next

Trace your future on the glass

Like you see around each bend

If you wanna hear that grin

Rolling through the clouds above

Say, “I’ll handle all of this”

And feel Him flood you full of love

Maybe He’s not laughing at me

Maybe He’s laughing me free

From the weight of playing king

In a land that’s not my thing

All my lists and all my lines

Look so small beside His time

So I breathe and let it slide

“Your will, not mine”

If you wanna make God laugh

Tell Him who you’ll be by fall

Then get carried by a grace

That keeps rewriting it all

If you wanna share that joy

Shaking every star above

Say, “I don’t know much at all”

And hear Him whisper back, “That’s enough”