I like to make lists, and be able to check those things off, however, more times then not, my plans get changed.
This week those plans have changed over and over, and I am ok with that. However, I haven’t always been ok with it…
It used to bother me and get me terribly frazzled. However, God spoke to me one day…
I must allow His plans to take over my list when He sees fit.
Last week, our first week back to school after our Christmas break, went with out so much as a hitch. This week, well, not so great.
As I posted yesterday, my hubby’s aunt is dying, and soon. Our school days are a bit out of whack with that. I also had a horrible back ache that pretty much grounded me on Wednesday.
God knew all these things were going to happen, and he knew, that I would either accept His change in my plans or become stressed….Is it ok if it is both?
I am stressed because I feel like I should put on my supermom cape and get it all done, but at the same time I fully believe that I am NOT supermom…
So, as we wait in limbo, knowing that there is going to be some crazy days ahead, I am contemplating even bothering to make a list that would be my plan for the next few days…is that bad? is it good? is there a right or wrong answer?
Sometimes our plans are messed up for our own good. We have all heard stories about someone who got delayed and missed a bad wreck or other such happening. So, as I end this week and look to next week, I think to myself. Is it going to be a huge deal if I didn’t get our bathroom closet cleaned out? Is it a huge deal that we didn’t get the yucky grammar lessons on commas wrapped up? Is it a huge deal that we didn’t get to lesson six in our Mystery of History?
I wonder how many public school classrooms didn’t get it all done either? Not that I am comparing our school to the Public school, because that would be like comparing apples and oranges, since we use lots of real life for our school. What I mean here, is that I remember being an aid at the public school and knowing what lessons were planned, and them not getting done.
The plans, all around the world are left incomplete a lot of time. Look at all those Presidential promises. They had great plans to accomplish lots, but…someone else derailed them, or that is what we are told. The senate or house or this person or that…
I would much rather assume that my God had better plans, and that we will learn much more from His plans they we would have from mine. I mean, He did create me, and my children, He knows our every hair and thought, then He surely can create a better plan then I can.
So, as I move to making next week’s lists, for school and as a homemaker, I will make room for changes. Because, this not so supermom, isn’t going to feel guilty if we can’t get it all done. His plans are my plans whether we want to admit it or not.
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