Life is Sailing

I try to find activities for myself and my children, sometimes informal sports gatherings or social get togethers. I think I have great ideas. I do my research. I plan it into our day. Then when I or we arrive, no one is there. It happens to be the one day that everyone was sick… or out of town… or the location was changed last minute… or there are two locations and I chose the wrong one. Seriously, it’s kind of insanely funny how many times this has happened to me.

One might consider me to be a poor planner or researcher, but I am convinced that those encounters were just not meant to be. God has other plans for the day. There have been times when I have had the opportunity to actually see the other end of the story, the opportunities that arose because doors were shut earlier. It is still often quite frustrating, to feel like I’m spinning my wheels and getting nowhere, but when I roll with it, I end up finding more than I thought I was looking for. So I think I must choose to roll with it.