When you can't get it all done. . .

...feeling somewhat better but still under the weather. I slept in until daylight this morning and am just puttering around at home.  It has been so long since I've had a "bug" that, at first, I didn't recognize it. I thought it was my usual allergic bout that happens every spring and fall. When the aching and chills began, so did the realization that I had been tagged by the current "bug" that's going around. It felt odd not to head for Curves, first thing this morning, while it was still dark.  That, together with cancelling choir last night, makes me feel like I'm having a vacation; one that will be short lived, however.  There are a lot of things I need to get caught up on.   

So what will I do with the rest of this day?  There's so much to choose from and it's hard to separate the "have to's" from the "want to's."  At least it is for me.  I don't think Bob ever had that problem.  He was a real  work-comes-first  kind of guy and was often impatient that there could be any question about that.  Sometimes, I can prioritize very efficiently but there are also times when it is difficult for me.  The latter happens when I have extended myself beyond my comfort level, either through my own choices or because of situations in which I am obligated by default.  I recall some words from Rick Warren in The Purpose Driven Life:  "If you can't get it all done, you're trying to do more than God intended for you to do."  Not only is that true but, further, you may even be preventing someone else from using their God-given gifts.  As I see it, we have a tendency to believe that our selflessness is proven by how much we do, but that is not necessarily true.  When we do more than our share, it may be that we are selfishly infringing upon what is intended to be another's contribution.  I suppose, to some, this may sound like I am assigning justification to laziness.  If so, I have, unfortunately, failed to clarify my point.

Having wasted a portion of this day on a point I have probably failed to make, how shall I spend the rest of it?  I really need to wrestle my palm tree back inside before it gets too cold.  I keep forgetting about that as well as a few other seasonal buttonings up.  I suppose there are more apples that are begging to be picked and maybe the pears on the later tree, too.  I don't think I can reach the pears, even with the double extended picker, and I don't think I'll be climbing the tree...or the ladder, for that matter!

For sure, there will be prayers of gratitude that, no matter what happens, God is good.