Control......Letting Go!

Well, last week was one of those weeks that I had to learn to roll with the punches!

On Monday I woke up and got the kids ready for school and decided I would take a much needed trip to the local bent and dent store!  I had my day planned out and got my stuff together and went to the care and the battery was dead!  At first I began to get frustrated and then I decided God must have a reason!  Brian was going to be able to come give me a jump a little after lunch time.  So, I decided for whatever reason God wants me home this morning and I'll go this afternoon!

Tuesday I had plans to meet a friend in the morning to walk and to meet another friend for lunch.  I had errands to run in between!  It was going to be a productive day!  Dropping things off at the consignment shop (which can only be done certain days!), getting groceries etc!  Well, I woke up Tuesday morning dizzy and extremely nauseous!  So, I thought I better let my friends know that I may not be able to meet them if I don't start feeling better!  Well, I ended up getting a message from my one friend that she had to cancel anyway because things weren't going the way she planned either!  As it turned out there was no way I was meeting my friend for lunch because I couldn't move off the couch all day!  When I let her know, she said God has a purpose!  So, I thought okay, she's right.  So, she texted me later that day and said that God was able to do some really neat things in her life that day because we didn't have lunch!  So, I responded to her that I was glad I was able to be sick so that those things were able to work out.  If that's what it took for God to have the opportunity to do those things in her life, then I was willing to take one for the team!  Her response to me was that usually when it affects two people God has something for both of them!  She asked what God was maybe doing in me that day!  And, then it hit me! CONTROL!  God was seeing if I was willing to give up control!

But, I like control!  I like knowing how things are going to go!  I don't mind rearranging things if it's because I want to!  So, I said yes God, I will give up control!  So, I was determined!  I knew if I made that decision that it was going to be tested!  And, the rest of my week seemed to follow the same fashion!  Multiple times I had to go with the flow as things couldn't work out the way I originally planned them out to be!  I usually get a little stressed and slightly over dramatic when there's a wrench is thrown into my plans!  (I know for those of you who know me well, you are completely shocked, me over dramatic, never!)  But, I will have to say over all I thought I handled it pretty well!  Only through God's strength!

Yesterday I was spraying some flea spray on my cat and he wanted to bolt!  He was not happy with me!  I kept saying, "I know Lucky that you don't like this, but you need to trust me it's for your good!  It will make you feel much better in the long run!  I'm not trying to be mean, I'm trying to help you!"  Then it hit me!  That's what last week was like for me!  I needed to trust God that what felt temporarily uncomfortable and inconvenient was meant to accomplish something good in me!  It was going to help strip away something that wasn't good for me!  How often do I not like what is happening in my life and wonder why God is allowing it but really He's saying, you need to trust me!  I know this doesn't feel nice right now, but in the long run it is going to be so much better for you because I am doing this in your life!  I am doing it because I love you and it's for your good!  I could let you alone and not work and you might temporarily be happy, but in the long run you are going to be miserable!

It's amazing how God takes the simple daily routine things we do and speaks through them!  I don't know about you, but He does that to me all the time!  I will be thinking something about a situation and have a random aha moment!  Things in relation to my children, my pets, my house etc!  God is so good and if you allow Him to, He'll speak to you through any situation!  God is so good!