I think the weather has disrupted most of us this week, visits have been cancelled, work is on hold and unless it can be done at home it isn't happening. How well do you cope with disruption? Are you the kind of person who goes with the flow or does an interrupted schedule cause stress?

I know and you have probably guessed, I fall into the latter group. Yes it is lovely to have everyone at home when the schools shut, but I am getting more and more stressed because I cannot do the things I want to get on with. I ended up this morning shouting at the kids to be quiet because I was trying to write an article on, would you believe, "Encouragement."

 

There is nothing I can do about the weather, sometimes things are out of my control and I just have to accept and turn them over to God, to trust that he will let me catch upon the things that matter and to help me realize  the others are just not that important.

 

I know this to be the case, I have often written about it,  but I still have a long way to go before it becomes my natural response.

 

"So do not worry,saying 'What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?"For the pagans run after all these things and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6 vs 31-34