So this week is suppose to be one of the busiest weeks for us; doing most the packing, trying to sell the last pieces of furniture, going over to friend's houses for dinner, making the last minute calls to our bank and cell phone provider, signing over our car to a friend, going out on a few coffee dates with friends, etc... But throughout life I have learned that what we plan rarely happens the way we think it will or think it should or what we plan sometimes doesn't even get done.
Joseph had the stomach flu all weekend. It was so hard for me to see him that way. If you have never had the stomach flu, thank the Lord right now! It is miserable...your stomach cramps up and you spend most your day in the bathroom.... not fun! So joseph missed most of our "Going Away Party" that our pastor and his wife hosted for us on Saturday and was unable to go to church yesterday but he is pretty much back to his healthy self today, thank the Lord for that.....just in time for me to come down with the stomach flu.
No...I am not joking! We have switched roles and today I am the one in bed and Joseph took the day off of work to take care of our son and do the cooking and cleaning and the errands.
So much for my plans...getting together with a young woman I mentor, doing some more sorting and packing, delivering a meal to a friend who just had her baby, and taking Micah to the doctors. And Joseph can only do some of those and the rest just won't be able to happen.
It would be easy for me to get a little bitter and frustrated with God and start to worry.
"What horrible timing, Lord!? Why now? This was suppose to be the week that we were busy with getting things done for the big move! How will we get everyone done in time?! "
But I can't help but think that maybe we scheduled ourselves too much and the Lord is actually doing us a favor by slowing us down. As I mentioned in an earlier post, it is easy to get caught up in the "to do list" and neglect what is really important. So I am choosing to take advantage of this forced downtime and to focus on what really matters...
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?.... So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."
Matthew 6:33
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