Loving It When...

I absolutely love it when God changes my plans to accomplish His. He does that quite frequently, probably because I am definitely a planner. I plan out my days (in my mind usually). For example: Last Thursday was my hubbies birthday. I was feeling pretty down because I had such a full day and wasn't going to be able to spend it with him. I whined a bit and then headed towards conquering my ridiculous schedule. I dropped Caitlyn off at the sitter, headed to SCA to spend a few hours there. That was incredibly productive, but time to go....jumped in the jeep to check off the next box of the to-do list...which was Bryd High. I have a bunch of bunch of bunch of observation hours this term, and Byrd is where I am assigned. I get there, praying for a parking spot because parking there is ridiculous! Yay, a spot, but....it is pouring. I am just not a big fan of being wet. I had class that night and a midterm, and it was Steve's birthday, and there I was sitting in Byrd's parking lot weighing the options looking out at the pouring rain!

The rain wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to walk so far carrying so much "stuff" AND an umbrella in dress clothes KNOWING I am going to be soaked no matter what I do. After a few minutes, abandoned idea and headed home. I got home in time to take some steaks out of the freezer and make steak for lunch for my hubbie. Sweeeeeet....that was amazing...that I got to spend lunch with him and study for my midterm. I was so much more relaxed and probably did better on that test, not to mention, I completed a few assignments which so needed to be done.
Whew...much better plan.

Today, had a similar plan: Get up, get to Byrd by about 8:30 and make up some of those observation hours. I got there, drove around, searched for a parking space (which again-ridiculous!). I ended up parking behind the school, behind the football field, which meant quite a walk, AGAIN in the rain. Hmm...sat there a minute, read my Bible, shot up some needed prayers, and considered my options. I opted to skip out AGAIN! (Only 6 weeks into the quarter, still got time to get those hours in). I get home where it is so quiet.

My plan was to reverse the order of my day, come home and get some stuff done, go to Byrd, then to work, and home again. However, still raining. I have gotten a lot done today including some school reading and a pop in on Gary Smalley. The articles dealt with issues specific to me, which I would not have read if I had not been here. As I am sitting here, my sister pops in. She is off on Mondays and needs to go to LSUM to drop off records. For her to do that, she is going to have to walk a zillion miles in the rain. Darn rain! So...I am here, no immediate plans, think I will run her over there so I can loop the parking lot while she runs in and neither of us get wet!

God's plan much better than mine...loving it....