Wednesday did not go at all as planned.  The house is still undergoing a massive cleaning effort in the days before graduation.  We should be ready for any white gloved relative to venture by.  I still have more to do with the yard but the drought is taking care of most of my issues.  Ten years of stuff is slowly being eliminated from the past.  What you discover can be as interesting as what is tossed aside.  My best guess is there are things still in their original resting place from the day of moving into the home.  One of the tasks of mine was to run some errands to the store in the afternoon.  It was going to be only one stop but further discussion led to it becoming yet another.  This would not be a big deal in most places but adding that one meant driving much further than was the plan.  You may soon see a pattern developing.

Going to the store usually means a trip to our closest large town with more options.  It was my luck to hit the school traffic this afternoon.  Construction on the highway adds even more of a blessing to the trip.  My list of things to do was not terribly long but the drive lasted the same anyway.  What started as simple errands would turn into a cross country journey.  A one hour effort soon became three.  Do not read this as complaining.  Take this as just explanation for how plans can quickly go awry with even the best intentions.  What seemed so simple would be complicated with pitfalls along the way.  I would like to tell you of my success in doing these small tasks but that would be untrue.  Seems as if my attempts would fall short though not by my doing.  We can try again tomorrow.

Our tendency is to view God's will as some divine list of chores.  He will give us some instructions while we set out to cross each one off when finished.  Our efforts then seem lonely as we deal with obstacles along the way.  Frustration builds until we wonder if it's worth all of the aggravation.  But we eventually try again without much enthusiasm for another round of celestial errands.  My idea is that the will of God is as much who we are as it is what we do.  One connects to the other in our human experience.  God does indeed spell out in scripture many things that we are to be about.  He may not make a neat list but we can usually figure out what He is saying.  But there is that other aspect to His will.  My errands today were probably not going to change my life in any major fashion.  Being a person of God will be quite the opposite.  Remember that God will tell Moses of divine purpose while laying out His plan for him.  David will be a person of God long before he reaches the job of being king.  Part of moving past God's will as a list to do is in knowing your divine place in all of this.  Who you are matters as much as any divine task.  You cannot truly know the fullness of His purpose until you put being and doing together.

There is much more to life than crossing off every task along the way.  Learn to receive more of God's grace so you can explore more of God's purpose.  It may not always go according to plan but it will make a difference in your life as well as in the lives of others.

Bro. Trey