For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11

In late 2014, I was a junior in college, home for the holidays. I was sitting in my mom’s navy blue recliner on break, luxuriating in holiday laziness, when I heard the news: Jim Harbaugh was named the head coach of the University of Michigan.

I’m not Catholic anymore, but the light the news brought me seemed like those miracles they’d talk about at …