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📒God moves in a mysterious way

✍🏾Possible meaning
The implication is that God's plan is beyond human understanding. God has a reason for everything, however strange it may seem to us.

✏️Note
mysterious (adj.) = impossible or difficult to understand | This saying is sometimes used to explain or at least justify unpleasant events, whether at a personal or global level.

▫️Origin
This saying is actually the first line of the poem and hymn "God Moves In A Mysterious Way" by the English poet William Cowper (1731-1800):

💭    God moves in a mysterious way
💭     His wonders to perform;
💭     He plants His footsteps in the sea,
💭      And rides upon the storm...