Schedule Changes

What a morning. I’m sure you’ve never had one like it. I’m sure I’m the only person with a million things to do in a 4 hour window. I’m sure you’re organized and disciplined and never run into my kind of chaos. I’m sure you won’t know what I’m talking about. Or maybe you do.

You have your day planned out to the nth degree. It’s gonna work, you tell yourself. You just have to remain focused. But then the coffee spills. Or like in my case, you realize you’re out of coffee, and things start to unravel.

The TV guy doesn’t show up right at 8am like promised. You remember your stupid dream about your ex fiance and his now girlfriend. You don’t even care about him or her, or the fact that in your dream they seemed ecstatically happy, but in your frenzy to get things done, unexpected and ugly reminders just keep popping up in your head. Your friend calls you because she’s not feeling well, and you decide to check up on her, but you can’t because you’re waiting for the TV guy. You hope she understands the delay: my TV over her health. You run downstairs real quick and notice someone didn’t remember to fold the laundry. Then you recall that no one else lives in this house, so you get mad. At yourself. You still haven’t had your morning cup of coffee. You need to pack for a youth retreat, prepare for the said youth retreat, get to your lunch meeting then to a dinner date. Not a boy, because that would just simply be a miracle from heaven, but with your dear friend Nan, and you normally would have been looking forward to the dinner thing because it’s downtown and you love sushi, but now you are just frazzled and rushed, and annoyed, and overwhelmed.

So you sit down to write a blog instead. As if…

Priorities. Errands. Unwanted interruptions. Unexpected schedule changes. Annoyances, or opportunities to reorder your day?

Mind you I still haven’t had my morning coffee, but I think I’m awake enough to understand a few things.

Most of us are over committed. We have left little room for the unexpected. We have left little room for divine interruptions. Until we hit the wall and realize there’s nothing we can do but let go and trust God.

I may skip my morning coffee today, or have to trust God to help my ailing friend.

It will be ok.

Instead, I will do what matters most. I will pause and ask the only question that will make a difference in my day: “Lord, what is your plan for me today?”

And I will offer the next act in worship to my king.

How’s your schedule looking today?

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