Plans

This is actually my second post today but hopefully the first one to get posted. I lost the first one; I still don't know how but I clicked something and poof! the entire post just disappeared. Funny how the title of the lost post was named "Thwarted". Anyway, I no longer feel the pressing need to repeat my ventings of earlier so I will write about something else.

Today I spoke to a friend of mine on the phone. She just recently had a birthday and I hadn't spoken to her since she & her family had returned from their vacation to Disney World. It was good to catch up with her after not talking for a few weeks. That is the surprisingly cool thing about our friendship - we just pick up where we left off and there is genuiness and encouragement in our interactions that I don't always get with others. She had a really good time in Florida and all the concerns she had about transporting her brood of boys in a small vehicle turned out to be non-issues after all. She has such a way of describing the funny and not-so-funny things in her life that it makes me feel like I'm there with her as it happens. She is a great storyteller. Sometimes I wish I could compile all her stories into a book but my remembering is never as good as the original telling.

This weekend would have been a great opportunity to visit her since my boys are going on a father-son trip up north and it will be just my daughter and I at home. The problem is that we only have one vehicle and that vehicle will gone. So I will be here for two days, when most of me really wants to be somewhere else. Those feelings of frustration were the topic of my lost post and I'm trying to be gracious about this sense of abandonment and thwarted plans. Its not easy, though. I do know that if God truly wanted me to go on a road trip to visit my friend and my sister He could easily plop a vehicle in my driveway. The likelihood is that I will remain here and I choose to believe that if that is the case, then there is a very good reason for this. He wants me to be where I can be of the most service and maybe that is right here at home. Time will tell.