One day at a Time

So my life has been a little hectic lately. Joel and I are working like crazy to finish up the rest of our house, which means a lot of painting for me. I am coordinating a trip for 10 people to Africa, and am trying secure airline tickets for us. Joel's Brother, Josh, is going to marry Kristi in a few weeks. To top it all off Perry Pallet has been very busy with a lot of orders, so Joel has been pulling a lot of long days and has not been getting home til close to 7pm some nights.

I know, I know, I know. So if I am so busy what am I doing wasting precious minutes blogging? Well God has shown me something that I just needed to share.

Yesterday I found myself doing my weeks worth of shopping while Joel and Phil stayed home and napped, usually I do this on Mondays, but because I needed to work on some other projects today so I went yesterday. Then I came home to a dirty kitchen, 6 plus bags of groceries that needed to be put away and a steak dinner that I wanted to cook for Joel before we went back to church that night. In the middle of putting away groceries, cleaning the kitchen and cooking steak and stuffed Mushrooms, I started to stress and get weary from all my work. Not only that I started to stress about all the stuff that is coming up, that hasn't happened yet. I was feeling like there was no light at the end of the tunnel. When Joel woke up to my Chaos, I started to cry. He soon asked me why I was stressing about stuff that hasn't even happened yet? I don't know. I tend to Worry, which is an awful habit. It gives you something to do, but doesn't help you at all.

Well today, I chose sit down and do my devotion a prayer time, before tackling for a second time, calling travel agents. I have been reading in a great devotional called Jesus Calling by Sarah Young. The whole devotion for the day was living inside your own limitations of living one day at a time. It challenged me to take different things that come up throughout the day and to ask God if this is a part of His agenda for my day. I am not the ultimate planner and organizer for my day, it is God.

So after I finished up my quiet time I went onto contacting travel agents, with No Success. I have come to the conclusion that getting one step closer to airline tickets is not in the Lord's plan for my day today.

So, off to go feed cows, fold Laundry, pay some bills, make dinner and maybe paint. I will wait and see what the Lord has in store for my day tomorrow. It could be travel plans, could be a cleaner house, I know it involves a dental filling (If God wanted to Heal that I would be okay with that plan), and God only know what else.