Change of Plans

I love love love my kids and their daddy but on any given day they have the potential to make me bat crazy!!! This morning was a prime example of that. I woke up a bit irritated because Jackson(our family dog) decides to break my sleep not once but twice last night because he needed to go outside….TWICE,  once at 2 am and the second time at 5 am. I regrouped and decided I would get back and start to work early because I have had a crazy week and needed to make up a bit of time. I get up to wake up my daughter. Wake up honey. She murmurs and goes back to sleep. I go back again up the stairs she is still sleep. I wake her again…and again…and AGAIN! Mind you she has several alarms set as well just for this purpose. I finally pry her out of the bed and keep trying to push her to move faster…I am convinced she didn’t just to agitate me. We rush out of the house to the bus stop….and…..THE BUS HAS ALREADY COME!! WHAT!!! I go back home, now in a full blown irritation because this kid doesn’t even care that she has thrown my schedule off. I wake up her brother and here we go again… he is in slow motion when he is usually already dressed and just has to put on shoes. I am telling him ok hurry I have to now take your sister to school. I think they were in cahoots because he was moving just as slow as she was. Finally I went and banged on the bathroom door and told them that was enough of all that lets go. I left the house later than I planned…with an extra tripped I didn’t plan..and the regular trip that was in the plan which meant…when I got home I could forget about an early clock in because I would be doing good to clock in on time.  I gave my kids a stern lecture on how no one in this family thinks I have anything else to do but worry about what they want to do but that I have responsibilities outside of running them where they need to be. They didn’t seem to care much about my fussing which made me angrier. KIDS!!!! UGH! Aren’t we the same way as Christians? We make these plans on our own that have nothing to do with God’s plans for us and just like my morning things go haywire and all off track and we try OUR plan again with a little more tweeking  and make it worse than the first time we tried it. I thought this morning how patient God has been with me when I THINK I’m going to change HIS plan by going my own way. How He must shake His head at me all of the time for interrupting His plans for me. Just like my kids I always want to go my own way not considering anything else or how I am delaying the plans God has for me. So the next time I’m fussing at my kids for messing up my schedule of things I will remind myself how it delays things when I try to change Gods plans.