November 3, 2018
Plans Change
Sometimes life just doesn’t go the way you want it to go.
You have to let it go.
Tonight I wanted to go to a get-together. I’d been planning for about a week
Everything seemed to be working out okay; the washing machine showed up early (Amen!), Anastasia got dropped off before 4, Christina had packed up her “civies” (I still mentally laugh hearing her call regular clothes that.) in her bag when I dropped her at the Cyber Patriot qualification in the morning, and we just had to get the house clean and get everyone ready before 3:40, pick up Christina at 4, and head to the get-together – we’d be late, but there.
Then there was a reservation for 5:15pm. No one else was working and I can’t cancel on them because it’s morally wrong to promise someone something and cancel an hour and a half before you have to pick them up. My word matters. And, I’m really thankful for my jobs! I know God gives us the jobs we get and we are expected to do our best. (I look at it as “God wants them in my car for some reason!”)
Honesty.
I had an obligation to them.
Adjust plan: girls clean up and get ready by 6:15, when I was expected back, and we’d be late, but would still be able to hang out for a little bit.
Well, the plan got seriously adjusted! I ended up having to cover starting at 3pm. Picked Christina up at 4, then as I’m on the way there, another ride for 4:30 (yikes! I can’t teleport through traffic!) rolls in… long story short – it’s almost 7pm when I get home because I was late to both rides after Christina. No one was ready. And I can’t (legally) pack all 8 of us into the 4-Runner. We are a 30 minute drive (usually 40 minutes with me driving because every traffic light in Saint Augustine always turns red when I’m three carlengths from it!) and it would take me about 15 minutes to get everyone ready. Plus, to use the 4-Runner, we’d have to have left at least 2 people behind. Nope. So, we end up spending the night at home. This was “cool” (per Jaquline) because we have awesome toys (per Anastasia), Christina can cook something good, and we’ll turn the front room into a dance party!
Sometimes a monkey wrench gets tossed into your plans, but if you learn to roll with it, you can turn it into a “look for the positive” teaching moment. I love finding teaching moments in life!
Plan changed.
I have to let my plans go.
Accept that plans change and I have little control over it. All I can control is my attitude toward it. (I’m super thankful for my jobs!) The last ride was a guy who had spent almost 40 years in the military (he chatted with Christina about the pros and cons) and a lady who had been a teacher and principal in St John’s County for 34 years (at one job her whole life)! So just maybe, God wanted us to pick them up and encourage each other. Only God knows! (That’s me, looking for the positive!)
Thanks for reading!
Type at you next time…
~Nancy Tart
