I had big plans for today. I wanted to finish up a new talk I am writing about Titus 2. The focus is on loving children, and being busy at home.
I was also planning to catch up on housework. I have several loads of laundry waiting to be folded and put away. As I lay down to sleep last night, I purposed in my heart to check some things off my “to-do list” today.
My plans were good plans. Writing that talk and bringing order to our home are things I know the Lord wants me to do! But they are now plans for another day.
One of my sons woke up terribly sick this morning. Let’s just say he has a stomach bug and it is coming out both ends. Being a young child, he hasn’t learned the art of handling both icky things at the same time. He chose to throw up in the toilet…and made a BIG mess all over the bathroom from the other end, spattering floor, tub, shower curtain…you get the picture.
I had just finished cleaning up that mess when I heard him in a different bathroom. This time he was sitting down (thank you, Lord!) but unable to hold his bucket and making a mess of a different kind on the floor.
He somehow managed to get sick in his own bed, and in his brother’s. Now all bedding from both beds has to be washed, along with the shower curtain, bath mat, and other soiled linens.
I had planned to write about loving children and being busy at home today. The Lord planned for me to live out what I’m teaching. The Lord also planned for me to do laundry today, but not in the way that I expected.
I don’t need to fret when my plans don’t come to pass. All of these activities (whether it be writing talks or folding clothes or washing sheets or disinfecting bathrooms) are done as unto the Lord and for the Lord. If my heart is truly set on serving Him, I will be at peace when He alters my course. I am not a slave to my “to do list”. I am a servant of Christ.
“Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.’ As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 13-17
Hi Molly, sorry to hear that your little guy is so sick! Have you ever used coke syrup or a product called emetrol (which is basically coke syrup). They help to stop vomiting and nausea.
Anyhow, I popped over to your blog to let you know that I *finally* posted your birth stories. The other 2 will go up in another couple of days. Sorry for the delay!