My house is on strike....
We're having a "fun" run-up to the Big Day on Saturday...quite a few things are breaking down on us. The hinge on the tumble drier door has been off for a while, but with a little fiddling, still works....but the biggie at the moment is that our main shower has given up the ghost. We think it might be 15 years old or so, but this means that we have to use the shower over the bath - which is ususally reserved for me ( the guys all use the main shower.) We've tried to get a replacement, but the one we want was online, and despite a number of phone calls back and forth, they haven't been able to dispatch, so it's a case of "see you after January 4th".
Yesterday was a frustrating day of cancelled clients at work, and I had a three-hour gap in the middle of my day, which was rather boring. Tonight, I was only supposed to have one client instead of a usual 3 (don't ask), and that one cancelled just before I was due to leave the house, so it left me with a highly unexpected night off (meant I had to do some ironing!!)
All of this has left me thinking about the "best laid plans......" Nothing major, or even huge, but all of it irritating and a bit frustrating. But when you look at the Christmas story, not a lot seems to have gone to plan at all. Yet every detail was EXACTLY as God intended it to be. "When the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son..." Nothing happened by chance or accident - only by design.
I see many people who live with a yoke of dissapointment. Somewhere in their story is an incident, maybe even a catalogue, of changed plans, dashed hopes and shattered dreams. It's good to remember that God is never a dissapointment, at Christmastime or Anytime.
Pat's Thought for the Day;
Read Galatians 4 in The Message, and dwell on what it means to be a child, rather than a slave. Christ humbly accepted the role of a servant, even becoming a baby, that we, who deserved to be treated as slaves, could be totally free
Yesterday was a frustrating day of cancelled clients at work, and I had a three-hour gap in the middle of my day, which was rather boring. Tonight, I was only supposed to have one client instead of a usual 3 (don't ask), and that one cancelled just before I was due to leave the house, so it left me with a highly unexpected night off (meant I had to do some ironing!!)
All of this has left me thinking about the "best laid plans......" Nothing major, or even huge, but all of it irritating and a bit frustrating. But when you look at the Christmas story, not a lot seems to have gone to plan at all. Yet every detail was EXACTLY as God intended it to be. "When the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son..." Nothing happened by chance or accident - only by design.
I see many people who live with a yoke of dissapointment. Somewhere in their story is an incident, maybe even a catalogue, of changed plans, dashed hopes and shattered dreams. It's good to remember that God is never a dissapointment, at Christmastime or Anytime.
Pat's Thought for the Day;
Read Galatians 4 in The Message, and dwell on what it means to be a child, rather than a slave. Christ humbly accepted the role of a servant, even becoming a baby, that we, who deserved to be treated as slaves, could be totally free
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