Yesterday was a day full of disappointments.  Have you ever had a day like that?  I think the secret to not being disappointed is to let God be in charge of everything.  I am a control freak.  But before the day was over, I was okay.   Disappointed, but okay.

It started because I had decided to put a bid in on a house close to Scott and Stacy.  The owner accepted my offer.  The contract was ready to sign--then he sold it to someone else and never came back to me for a counter offer!!  I had already hired a subcontractor to make some changes.   What happened???  I finally decided that God was in control and I needed to chill out.  It's just a house.

Then I went to see the specialist.  The one that had told me that as soon as all the blood work was back, that there might be something we could do about my arm.  There wasn't.  It didn't turn out that way.  I just have to live with it.  I have to be more careful and not scratch my arm.  That's the way it is.  But I have an arm.  I have good eyes.  I can hear.  I can walk.  I have a purpose.  I have fingers.  I play the piano for my church.  I teach a Bible class.  I have wonderful friends and family.  And all of you.

To top it off, the day was Nov. 19.  One year since Ken died.  Oh well.  Might as well get it all over on the same day.  I do miss him.  He would have said to me, "That's the way it is.  Get on with it."  He always just put one foot in front of the other and kept on keeping on.

My grandson called me awhile ago and asked me to "go hang out" with him this evening.  I think I will pull a Scarlett O'Hara and think about my disappointments tomorrow.  Tomorrow is another day.  And God hasn't failed me yet.  When your grandson wants to spend the evening with a grandmother that is fifty years older than him, things can't be that bad.

I Timothy 6: 7-8  "For we brought nothing into the world, and obviously we cannot take anything out of the world;  But if we have food and clothing, with these…be content."