It's All Good

Perspective is everything. A little project can turn into a full blown home remodel. Not what you were planning on, not on the schedule, not the right tools or the right pieces and I don't care what you say, it is never in the budget you planned on. So you are doing a good deed you think, and going to replace a simple ceiling fan. You get a new one, it is nice and not out of budget nor will it require you to buy new furniture to match it:) It is just right.

Then you remove the old fan. It comes down without a care. From this moment on nothing will be as expected. It won't even be conceivable at points. You will find yourself repeating over and over in your head "Lord give me grace!!" This intermingled with 3000 "You have got to be kidding me" and 200 "I can not believe this!" By the time you are done you will have completed enough repetitious phraseology to resemble a rosary script.

Now it is no mystery that life throws a curve ball now and again. And it seems that the big stuff can be easier to deal with because we can identify it as, well, BIG! You are not perplexed as it is clear that the BIG situation is going to require total trust in the Creator and you will have no control over it. But these simple, somewhat tiny issues, these are the ones that can throw a wrench in your day causing you to completely forget that even in the daily grind you are not in control. Of anything. Ever! Period!!.

And it won't be until the last missing bolt for the fan is found and the home made jerry rigs are done that you will be able to reflect on your experience and recognize that all your mental tantrums were for nought. You were not in control anyway. God knew what you were going to get into and the only reason you got out was because He let you. You see no matter what you face, it is all good! It always was and it always will be. It may not be apparent when you start, but it will finish and you will accomplish just what was needed for YOU to learn to lean.