It is 4:30 in the afternoon and it has been one of those days. I came into the office this morning around 8:30, following an early morning meeting, and looked excitedly at my schedule for the day; work on my sermon for Sunday and write my monthly elder report. That was it! I was so excited. I even remember thinking that I might have an hour or more to do some reading. So much for good intentions. The details of my day are not important and everything that happened today was necessary and important – I even used my 4-Runner to pull a van out of the snow that had slid off the road into the front yard of the church -  it’s just that it’s 4:30 and so far I have spent about 30 minutes on my sermon and have not finished my elder report (which is due at 4:30)!

But here is what I know; God knew what this day would be like and that it wouldn’t look anything like what my calendar looked like. It says in Psalm 139:16, “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” So I take a deep breath and tell God that I trust him and I thank him for giving me his wisdom and grace for the events of this day. But honestly, I hope that his plans for me for tomorrow include a lot of sermon preparation time because Sunday is coming soon! Just in case, I think I’ll work on it some before I go home.

Tim