Oh my dear weary friends I sit here on my couch this evening wondering what exactly happened to our summer. We went from end of the school year activities, to our towns big celebration (which entailed weeks worth of float work and culminated in a parade). Then we went right into VBS. work, took a break for a week while hubby and the whole family went to an area christian kids camp and hubby did 3 nature adventure hikes for four days (we had a blast and Tornado got to do his first sleep away camp experience), then we got back in time for VBS to start. Oh what fun that was as we transformed our church into Athens Greece and we took on characters! After that I jumped right into working on my daughters 7th birthday present! (It was a lot. Of sewing but about 90 percent of it was finished on her birthday). And then when her birthday was all said and done, i sat back and said…what now?
I have roughly 2 1/2 weeks of summer vacation left and we have some fun things planned, but when I look back at the beginning of June two things flood my heart.
#1- i failed- i didn’t reach any of my goals for this summer. Did I accomplish things, of course but it wasn’t what I wan’t to.
#2 my kids didn’t have the best summer I had planned to give them
Then I stop say….”Girl you know better! It’s not about what you want. It’s about what God wants. And as for the kids, they had a blast! Running through the woods, playing in the kiddie pool, staying up late, trying new foods, finding frogs and salamanders, finishing the fence and having safe play outside. They know nothing about the best summer ever, that you had planned for them! ”
This was something that I did to the best of my ability.
I lived the 1 Corinthians 10:31 principle of doing all to the glory of God….and I will continue to do so for the next two and a half weeks!
And what if you didn’t?
Each day is a new slate, a new beginning so make a choice, you can make two.
Make the choice to accept God’s plans over your own AND to do whatever it is God. Has planned to the best of your ability!
Does all of this mean we shouldn’t make plans, no, no it doesn’t. It means that if God has something else in mind, roll with it. Don’t complain. Usually in those plan B moments God plans on ministering to us or through us which results inblessings either way!
So yes our summer is almost over and no it didn’t go as I had planned it, but it was a good one nonetheless and I thank the Lord for that!
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