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Have you got a full schedule or timetable of what you must get done this month, this week - today? You get to feeling overwhelmed and then fretful, don’t you? Even if others have not laid all those little “jobs” on you to do, if you’ve been planning what you must get done, you want to live up to your own expectations. So in a sense you are the taskmaster that’s driving most of what you want to accomplish, right?

Then when someone else, like a family member, or a committee that you are on, throws yet another thing on you - you want to explode in anger. How dare they lay more expectations on you, when as far as you can see, you won’t get everything done that you feel is your duty and in your goals.

I’m in the midst of such a crisis too. It actually started a few weeks ago, but recently I have taken to committing my daily schedule to the Lord, and I’ve seen some amazing miracles. I counted about seven just yesterday! So let me urge you to do the same. Give Him liberty to remove some things that aren’t really necessary, but ask Him to also provide wisdom and discernment to know which jobs to keep and when to slip them into your busy day.

I’ve had to sacrifice some of my blocks of time temporarily for interruption projects, but I’m astonished at how many nooks and crannies of free time God has found in my timetable, where I can get this and that done. With five and ten minute sessions over meal times, I have made a Teddy bear for a new great-nephew, I altered a fur jacket for someone, I took Dad shopping for a chair he wanted, I sold some copies of my novel! I’ve set up a client on my hosting service, and will do another one right after I finish this blog.

Right now I’m riding on the “high of faith” all these things are giving me. I am not fretting about my schedule this week. I’m laughing as I go! Seems to me, it should work for you too.