My Week-end Plans

It has been my observation (along with a little help from C.S.Lewis and The Screwtape Letters) that one of the quickest ways to make someone mad is to frustrated his plans.   Such was the case with me this past week-end.  I wanted to go hiking in the woods, but I did not.

I’ll spare you all the details. Suffice it to say that the list of desired accomplishments for the week-end was much longer than the week-end would allow.  What I had hoped would be quick, easy projects turned into long tedious ones.  I got more and more frustrated as the end of the day on Monday approached.  I could see the opportunity for my hike slipping away and I still didn’t have my projects done.   As late afternoon arrived, I stomped out of the house, slamming the door and yelling.   Nevermind that it had been my plans to do the projects.  All I could think about now was MY plan to go hiking.

My holiday . . .  My projects . . .  My plans . . .   My time . . .  I just hate it when MY stuff gets messed up.

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you? . . .    Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”  You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like?  For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.  You ought to say instead, “If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.”
                           –  James 4:1, 13-15    Netbible.org