Some Things Cannot be Scheduled?

Some Things Cannot Be Scheduled

I live by my diary - meetings, retreat times, days away travelling and specific tasks are all carefully added to the diary. Each day is scheduled, each week is programmed, each year planned. When I need help with my time management there is no end of the fabulous devices available to help me.

Yet the truth of life which constantly confronts me is that some things can't be scheduled. We all find this difficult because we live in a buy-it-now, fix-it-quick, take-it-all and have-it-all society.

But you can't schedule love. You can't just 'order in' strong relationships. Health issues are not always a quick-fix away and the joys of families and children do not always happen on cue. Pandemics suddenly strike and everything changes.

And at the moment, with so much having been cancelled and our schedules in disarray, we are reminded that we don't control life, and some things are a matter of trust and faith.

The weakness of our scheduled lives is that we can start to believe that we control everything. It is a tough lesson to discover we are not God and we can't control life - that job is already taken.

But it's also a lesson of comfort and hope, because when we realise we aren't in control, we are free to hand over control to someone who knows much better than we do: God. I urge you to do that today.

Daily- reading by Karl Faase with many thankful thoughts.

(Agreed: Digital Anvil )