How great is God--beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out. "He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind. Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion? See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea. (Job 36:26-30 NIV)
This morning was nearly picture perfect. I set the coffee pot to automatically start brewing the special blend my daughter gave me for Christmas at the same time my alarm woke me for the day. I let the dog out while reading Scripture and praying for nearly 50 people by name, thinking about their requests, and lifting it all up to Him. I showered, got ready, and only got to my first meeting 10 minutes late due to bathroom coordination for the day. All in all, not a bad start to the day. Then little details started falling apart.
Recognizing I was going to be late, I sent a text to my first meeting to let him know. When I got there, I found out he hadn't gotten the text. I looked at my contact list and found out that our computer systems had corrupted my entire contact list. People from one household got merged with people from another household. Names were all mixed up. Emails, phone numbers, and addresses didn't match the correct people. This was not good.
Then I realized this affected my prayer groups. This meant I couldn't tell people I prayed for them today. Not good. Well, I couldn't do anything about it then, so I went through with my first meeting. It went well.
My second meeting was supposed to be a training session for a new volunteer on our computer systems...the same ones that had just messed up our contact list. The part of the system where we enter in contact information, prayer requests, comments, and follow-up, however, appeared to be working fine. This meant we could do training! Well, not really. You see, this part of the system had performance problems. A task that normally took 30 seconds was taking 2-5 minutes instead. At that rate, our connect cards wouldn't be entered in until next month! Once again, not good. We trained on what we could, then sent my second meeting home.
This week has been filled with these kinds of "details" problems. Email devotionals didn't go out, then suddenly started working again. Web site changes were there, then not there again. Life Bridge Alive weekend services are still not posted from a week ago. Like I said...not good.
Today's reading from the book of Job really kept me focused today and at peace. It helped me remember to "step back" and look at the "big picture." All the little details that go as expected or not expected really don't determine whether my day is "good" or "not good." They're just details of my day.
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