It's Friday and here is my agenda. Create six event proposals for new clients for weddings and parties. This consists of pricing catering, DJ/music, decorations, photographers, etc. These all came in yesterday. Work on the agenda and powerpoint for our sermon planning team meeting in the morning. Take Keaton to see his mama and brother Liam at the hospital. First stop and get Steph magazines, cupcake, and stuff for hospital boredom. (I told her to just chill it rest without 3 boys for a few days.) Get to Garrett and Steph's house before Jacob is off the bus at 2:30. Straighten their home, change sheets, do laundry and make dinner for Garrett and boys and get ready for mom to come home with Liam. Plus + it's raining and I will be dragging Keaton around out in it in his Sponge Bob hat. Are you tired yet because writing it down wore me out.

I am such a, "list," person. It brings me comfort to know I have direction. If I do something that wasn't on the list, I will add it so I can cross it off! Seriously. I want credit! However, some days I create a list and my day gets totally interrupted. I realize, "I'm not gonna get to everything on my list!" Like when I locked my keys in the house once. The only open window was on the second floor. So I climb up and am sticking halfway through with my rear hanging out with a neighbor honking his horn as he drove by. How humiliating. Tired, I sat on the couch with my keys and reviewed my list. There was not one urgent thing on there. Just busyness. Unfortunately today’s list does not present that kind of flexibility.

"Be still and know that I am God." He tells us that yet we can barely sit still five minutes. I have been reading Proverbs and over and over you read the theme of gaining wisdom. But we can't get wisdom is we are rushing, rushing, rushing! So why did God create lists? So we can see on paper that we can do nothing apart from him. He gives us energy, a caring heart, and a car to drive as well as obligations to serve those we love and those he brings us. But mostly he gives us the opportunity to draw our strength and wisdom from him.