Everything was moving fast. So fast. An extended house guest left Friday evening, and unexpected weekend guests arrived later that night. I still needed to prepare for an upcoming business trip. I had a list of to do’s that had yet to be ‘ta-done’ and I had already pre-planned my weekend to focus on finalizing details and tying up loose ends. This was before: a kitchen spill created a reaction with my stove top striker (that resulted in a fire truck and discovery of a gas leak), one of my house-guests had a medical flare up that lasted twenty four hours, the broken phone that added even more anxiety to my house-guests so now we need to visit Sprint on a weekend and still make it to the Open House and family dinner (Mother’s Day), etc. Everything was moving FAST and too much was happening at once.
During this so very ‘life happens at inconvenient times’ moment, I remember clearly thinking, ‘Ugh!’ But I don’t like to live in ‘Ugh’ moments. So I immediately began to focus on my thoughts, and remind myself that perspective has a very real effect on any given situation and subsequent feelings and resolutions. This gave me enough of a pause to look at everything happening- and what could of developed into chaos magnified- and say to myself and my house-guests, “Fortunately, no one was hurt, the stove did not explode; and if it wasn’t malfunctioning, we wouldn’t have found the large liquid spill near the electrical socket, nor would we have identified the gas leak so promptly.” A simple statement that started an unplanned conversation about perspective which then grew into an awesomely deep conversation and then I realized:
This inconvenience was not an imposition at all. It was a divine moment that was almost missed because of FASTNESS. It was a moment in time that God chose to trust me with precious souls that needed a place of rest, refreshing, and impartation. And I almost missed it.
