Last week, my wife and I were rushing for an important meeting and we were stuck in traffic. Traffic was soo bad as there were 2 accidents in the highway and 4 out of 5 lanes were blocked. It would normally take 30 minutes to travel and now it has become 1.5 hour (at least that's what the radio says). I was saying to myself surely we are going to be soo late.
Then we decided to find other roads to go to, well guess what, probably half of Melbourne had the same thought just like us. Other roads were as bad. I was frustrated, nervous, and kind of not sure what to do now.
Then, Kris started praying for a good traffic or at least arriving not too late. I was thinking to myself, really? is He going to really answer that? It would be awesome if He does, what if suddenly all the cars are going move aside and let me through, or a group of traffic policemen knock on our car window and say ' Sir, we will escort you to your destination'...good imaginations right...., well didn't happen though.... so we were crawling our way out of the city and only then I knew how late we were going to be...We arrived at the place 30 minutes late, and I was exhausted after all the speeding, worrying or put it simply 'road rage'....we were fortunate enough to arrive 30 minutes late, could have been worse, I think that was part of the answered prayer...
Things just don't go according to our plan all the time. For the last 2 weeks, I didn't plan to go overseas on the same day when I just got back from out of town. I didn't plan to go to Geelong twice, Ballarat twice, in a week to fix faulty medical machines..I didn't plan to get a corrupted laptop within a busy week of work (though I managed to fix it after a couple of days, fiuuuh).... Sure we are hoping for the best but things don't always go according to plan...
But that won't stop me from planning, cause I know that there are things within my hands or responsibility too, say how much time I'd like to spend with my family, how often do I go overseas to visit my parents, how quick should I finish my part time studies, how am I going to learn mandarin and speak to my in laws...Too often I put my energy and thoughts on the the things that are beyond my control, just worrying, being frustrated or even dreaming... when I just realized that I should've focus my efforts on the things that I could do..
In other words, on the things that are in God's hand, I'd leave them to Him. Things that are within my responsibility I'll work on them....as for coming to an important meeting.. I think leaving early won't hurt =)....
Stef
