The past several days have been quite busy, and this morning I prayed that I would be more open to God's leading in the ordering of my days. I find that I am spending an inordinate amount of time on the computer and yet am finding little fulfillment in what I am doing. I see that this time is taking away from my time with others, and so I have prayed that God would lead me to discern what is necessary and beneficial to me in my computer use and what needs to be set aside for other times. There are so many wonderful blogs that I want to follow, I want to post regularly on my own blog, and I want to use my computer to find needed information and for my own recreation. I have confined myself to using the computer only in the early morning as an aid to my prayer life and for recreation and to using the computer during other times in the day when it will not take my attention away from others and from work that I want to do, and I believe that God is leading me to a healthier use of all my time, including my computer time.
My prayer each day is that I will allow God to order my days. I have not reached the point that I have been able to turn the planning of my days over to God completely. I still make plans and then have to pray that God will bless the plans I've made or reorder them according to God's will. When I do make plans before I've prayed about them, I ask for acceptance of whatever may come, even when my plans are altered, praying that I will recognize God's hand at work in the re-ordering of the plans I've made. I find that I am becoming less rigid about sticking to my previously made plans when circumstances alter them and have been able to let go of the frustrations that used to bedevil me when I was unable to follow through on my plans. I know that if I continue to seek God's leading, I will be able through God's grace to turn the ordering of my days over completely to God. Until that transformation is complete, I am content to learn the discipline of having my own orders for the day altered.
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