Today was a day of situations out of my control. It was pouring down rain when I needed to walk a dog. My oldest had a chiropractor appointment that started late and went long and then needed to go get changed and go to a meeting on the other end of town and the only time I could drive him was when I should have been leaving the house to go in the other direction to take his brother to basketball practice. On any other given day, this could have made me lose my mind(up in here, up in here-Credit to DMX), but today, in all of my bleary eyed, slow adrenal functioning self, could lay down and nap right now at this very moment, I realized that there was not a darn thing I could do about any of it and that the fact was, we were going to get to where we were going when we got there. I guess I’m growing up. It was freeing to realize that these circumstances were out of my control. In fact, I felt like a boss when I pulled a poncho out of my back seat to walk that dog in the pouring down rain, I was unknowingly prepared. But God put little things in our lives like that. He is in all of the details of our lives. From the poncho in the car to the small still whisper that told me to just be still because these things are out of my control. From there, instead of being annoyed with every slow driver on the road, I was able to have nice car conversations with both of those big boys.

Now, I am here at basketball practice, sitting in my driver seat, laptop in my lap. Initially I had taken my journal out to work on a poem but my brain couldn’t focus and I thought, well I want to blog today but I don’t think anything really happened today that needs to be recorded and then I recalled what got me here. We can’t live in the past, but hopefully we can learn from it. Today I learned that when circumstances are out of my control, God is still in control. What do you need to give to God today? Leave me a comment!

On another note, let’s pray for everyone in Florida awaiting the Hurricane. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

The beach that I enjoyed walking on barefoot while enjoying praise and worship music last week when a situation was out of my control and I had more free time than I planned. It turned out to be a blessing.