Interruptions

Sometimes I feel like my life is just a series of interruptions.

Everyday, I have my plan, my to-do list; I’ve mentally prepared to tackle things. I know, understand and accept that sometimes God’s plan is not my own and I fully intend on going with the flow and if God changes my plans so be it. Well, at least that’s what I tell myself. And sometimes it’s true. If I plan to go grocery shopping and run errands, but my kid needs me… I am Mom first. I will get the shopping and errands done later. Or if I think my blog is going to be about highlighting how phenomenal the young actors did in a Christmas movie, but I end up deleting everything and writing about a beautiful and unexpected reminder I got about the true meaning of Christmas… ok God… use me. But then there are other things.

There’s traffic.

There’s the young door-to-door salesperson that you KNOW is so uncomfortable to be at your door.

There’s the peeing puppy and the shedding dog that belong to your adult children that unexpectedly moved back home.

There’s the unexpected pregnancy in your freshman year in college.

There’s cancer.

There’s rain when you want to go for a walk (oh wait… I love walking in the rain. Scratch this one)

You get it. We all get it. There are things we want to do. Need to do. And things pop up and make it difficult and distract us and sometimes completely prevent us from doing what we need to do.

I ran across this quote from CS Lewis, “The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life- the life God is sending one, day by day”.

Wow.

It makes sense. My life is made up of a series of events and I can choose to see them as interruptions and disturbances, or I can see them as part of the beautiful tapestry of my life, painted with flowers and unicorns and pain and loss and everything in between.

Sidenote: We bought the vacuum and my life is immensely blessed by the baby born when I was in college. Cancer and traffic and puppy pee… that’s harder to see the blessings, but they’re there if we look hard enough.