Life Happens

February went pretty well here at the blog.  By the end of the month I was catching up and getting ahead in a real way for the first time since Dad got sick.    I got a week ahead on a sermon outline and radio shows.  Had plans for upcoming sermons under development.  Life is what happens when you are busy making plans.  We got the call from Charlene that her water had broken and they were heading to the hospital.  The next morning we were delighted to hear that baby Churchill had arrived, early but healthy.  I haven't written a blog post since.  Now it would be terrible of me to try to blame this poor little boy for the famine on my blog.  It isn't really his fault.  And I can't complain about having my plans changed, after all, Nate & Charlene's plans were much more deeply impacted than my own.    In reality, the sudden change and shifts in workload that resulted were less about me being busier and more about me struggling to adjust routine.  Yes, I have been busy, but you make time when you need to.  The bigger issue is the structure that I create to manage my work.  I had one structure worked out and when things changed I didn't adjust as adroitly or quickly as I should have.  Then I get into a structure that can best be summed up in the phrase, "I'm getting to it without doing it."  Not getting to it hardens into a habit that requires breaking.  That's why I'm finally doing a blog post today.  I am very busy, with IV tonight and an early morning pastors' breakfast.  Yet, it is time to return to the blog, to do it, not merely try to get to it.

I am left with a couple of good thoughts.  How often to we allow changes to throw us off our game, to point to those changes as reasons why we didn't do stuff when the real blame lies with ourselves, that we failed to reprioritize, reorganize, and adjust to the change?  How often do we carefully fine-tune our lives while ignoring that God is the one that directs our steps and that we should be ready for that direction to differ from our plans.  God warned us that we do not know what a day will bring forth.

And congrats to the Churchills for the birth of their son!  We are so excited!