Disaster is spelled "b-l-e-s-s-i-n-g"

A coworker sent me this message today: "I wonder how many times in life we try to push through our own plans instead of asking God if He has a better way?"
We can be such dense people, not to mention blind, "un-trusting", stubborn and a few other adjectives. Her comment was in response to the following email I sent to our faculty and staff today:
As many, if not all of you know we (campus) were damaged from a wind and rain storm that blew thru' here a week ago last night.
As a result the roof on the Library's storage room was folded back like a blanket and damage was suffered in the contents below. Companies were quick to respond to our insurance agent and Friday [June 10th] plans were formed and put into action. Currently [June 17th] we now have an empty back room with a temporary roof covering. Contents are now all off site being stored, dried, cleaned and treated for mold. As soon as the Boys' Dorm roof is finished I am told they will begin putting down a permanent roof, here . [June 21st: we now have our new roof, too.]
What have we learned through all this? Plenty! God has a sense of humor for one thing. I was not anticipating putting the books back in there after the book sale this spring, but was unable to find any place else on campus to put them. Yet I knew that if they stayed in the back they would get ruined. Well I was right, ---they did get ruined. BUT, God wanted them ruined!!! Doesn't that sound strange to our human way of thinking??? We will now get more money for the loss of the books then if we had sold them. They are "just books" and God has His ways of providing.
--"His thoughts are higher than 'my' thoughts" ((that's for sure)),
--"All things work together for good...",
--"I know the plans I have for you, plans for good and not for evil...", and more.
God is CERTAINLY in control. Now, we will have a finished, usable room because the Lord is providing the money through the insurance company. "God works in (AMAZING) ways, His wonders to perform...."

The timing for this lesson could not be missed for me personally. For the last two years our family has been going through a crisis with our older son. This resulted in him being imprisoned and he being divorced from his wife and losing his children. To me, losing the contents (some), was an "in your face" (to me) reminder that God IS in control. There's no two ways about it. Even when things are not going the way I would like for them to. But what a reminder that He knows the beginning from the end and what seems like a tragedy to us is in actuality a blessing in disguise.