Or something like that.
To even stand a chance of getting around to what really needs to be accomplished today, I must first take some virtual time to think about one of my new favorite quotes. Consider this,
When I meet a wind I cannot fight,
I can do naught but set my sails
To let it take me where it will.
That is taken from a book I've been reading called The Rose Garden. It's not a bad read, but I won't give it my full recommendation until I finish it. If it ends in a way that makes me want to throw my nook across the room, well... it will fall short from getting my five stars. That particular quote, however, caught my attention and made me pause what I was reading the other night to write it down. In the last thirty-six hours or so, I've been thinking about the truth and wisdom steeped in those words.
How many times have I fought that wind? How many times have I grown weary from struggling with the sails and fighting the current and cursing the direction it is taking me? How many times have I given up the fight, exhausted, after coming to the conclusion that there really is no fighting that kind of wind. The course before me has been set and no matter how hard I may try to steer it the other way, I only end up losing time and energy and find myself right back to that original course.
If that makes any sense at all.
Today I am thankful for the course that has been set especially for me. This thought brings to mind Psalm 139:16 (The Message):
Like an open book,
You watched me grow from conception to birth;
All the stages of my life were spread out before You,
The days of my life prepared before
I had even lived one day.
I had even lived one day.
God has answered my prayers more than once in the midst of strong winds in which I have no control. He steers the ship with His very breath even while I doubt His direction. Without Him, I would have surely perished already by my own hand. No, that is not a suicidal thought... it's a factual statement. My ways and my thoughts and my plans would have already been my own demise. Do you get that? We were never meant to survive on our own. We were meant to follow the plans of a perfect Creator.
So anyway.
That's what has been on my mind and now that my peace has been said, I can move on to those other things like presentations and state standards and electric payments.
Then again,
It might not be a bad time to mop the kitchen floor.
So anyway.
That's what has been on my mind and now that my peace has been said, I can move on to those other things like presentations and state standards and electric payments.
Then again,
It might not be a bad time to mop the kitchen floor.
