I had quite the day today. It started out good. Wednesday mornings are always kind of a down time for our family as Jason doesn't have to go into work until later. So, we usually do a big breakfast and then get started on school before we all head our separate ways just after lunch. This morning was no different. I made homemade pancakes which I usually do at least once a week. Then Cale and Ky started their school work. I love Wednesdays because Jason gets to help the boys with their school and I always enjoy watching and listening to them interact with one another.
After our great morning we all got ready to leave the house to our separate events. Jason has work, Cale to basketball practice, and I have leadership training all at the same time. Jason took the boys and left a few minutes before I left the house with the baby. As I am walking out our back door I see the problem...... Our gate is standing wide open and our two dogs are no where to be found. Jason calls right at that moment. I tell him about the situation and he tells me he will take care of it. However, he is already in town which is 30 minutes away. He also informs me that he is having some issues with our car insurance. In the middle of our conversation our call gets dropped. At this time I see our dogs way down the road so I go after them.
I finally get them in the Suburban. We do not have small dogs either. Our big dog is around 130 pounds. Our other dog is a yellow lab and he is probably half that size. The two together make quite the load. I finally get Jason back on the phone and tell him that I have the dogs but don't have time to go back to the house as I am already going to be late for my training so he says he will just meet me there at the church.
The whole way in the dogs are not behaving. They are climbing all over the seats (leather seats) and just being big pains. I am of course driving and can't do anything about it except yell at them every once in a while which does absolutely nothing. I finally get to the church and get to my training 5 minutes late which always puts my stomach in knots. Jason is agitated too because now he has to deal with the dogs at the church.
My training was phenomenal as usual but as soon as I get done Jason starts to tell me about the issues he is having with our car insurance. For whatever reason they kept saying the my driver's license was not valid. So, with 3 kids and 2 dogs I have to head to the DMV because they won't give any information out over the phone. I am frustrated at the insurance company. Of course my driver's license was valid! I was not happy that I have to go to the DMV either. No one likes to go to the DMV.
As I walk in the DMV I explain my situation to the lady behind the counter. She asks if I just called and I said yes. She said, "I am sure you are really happy to have to drag all of your kids down here aren't you?" Although I wasn't happy to be there I still appreciated the safe-guard that they were putting in affect in order to prevent such things like identity theft so I told her that I really didn't mind (and it was of course not her fault, so why take it out on her) and that I appreciated the process.
It turns out that there was a glitch in the system somewhere that said that I had surrendered my license to another state, which of course was not true. So they had to call that other state and get it cleared up for me. As I was waiting there for about an hour for this process to occur I asked the lady what would have happened if I would have gotten pulled over and she said that I would have most likely received a ticket. I have been driving around with an invalid driver's license for over a year and I didn't even know it. Finally, they got the situation cleared up and I was on my way home with my 3 kids, 2 dogs, and a partridge in a pear tree. (I am just kidding about the partridge in a pear tree. I just threw that in there because it sounded good.) I picked up Cale and headed home. As I was driving down my long driveway a song came on that I have been wanting to hear for a while now. I have never gotten to listen to the whole song so as I pulled up to the house I just sat for an extra moment and listened.
I came in and started to think about what a mess my day had been. As I sat and fed the baby I started thinking about all the things that irritated me. First of all the dogs....Well, at least they got out before I left instead of after I left. Who knows where they would have been if that would have happened. At least I was able to get them back and I didn't have to look my 3 sweet little blue eyed boys in the eye and tell them I couldn't find their dogs.
I thought of the insurance company that I was irritated at.....If it weren't for them notifying us of this problem I would have never known about it. They of course were just doing their job. What if I would have gotten pulled over and gotten a ticket? How much time would that have taken to fix and money?
I started to think of the DMV.....I did get to walk right in. How many times to you go to the DMV and there is this ridiculous line. Plus the lady was very nice and very helpful. I could have gotten some grouchy, unhelpful person. I also got to listen to the song that I hadn't been able to listen to yet. Only God's timing could have done all that.
As I pondered the events of the day my heart softened. I realized that God was actually in the midst of all of it. These things were not there to irritate me but to actually protect me from things that could have been so much worse. I could have gone to bed tonight still fuming about how my plans had not gone accordingly instead of seeing God's presence and protection in the midst of it all. If it weren't for Him, I could be going to bed tonight with a situation that was much worse. So, although things didn't go according to my plan I find myself thankful that things did go according to His. Thank you God!
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