Since everything matters, some things don't.

At 5am this morning we drove off for a road trip. 11 days, 2,708 miles and 19 family members we will visit as we trek down to Arizona and back. And last night as I packed everything into my dad’s truck, my laptop slid out of the cab, falling onto the concrete garage floor.

It doesn’t work anymore.

So. Here we are. As you know, my Sacred Mundane mantra is, Everything Matters. And because everything matters, some things don’t. Because every moment and every circumstance is an opportunity for our growth and sanctification, I can smile when my computer breaks as we leave on an 11-day road-trip and I have not a single post scheduled.

*Smile*

Because really, people—it’s a blog. Right? It’s only a blog and it’s only a computer and God is doing glorious, beautiful, enormous things in this world, and perhaps just for this day—or 11 days—I will just have to set aside my normal and enter myself into His activity in a different way.

I wonder if sometimes the enemy’s job is so easy that all he has to do is convince us that every inconvenience is a really big deal. That we are a really big deal.

Thankfully, God is a really big deal. And so big that whatever inconvenience comes our way today, we are STILL able to tuck ourselves into God’s master plan and be used by Him for His glory and our good.

I do have some things I’m looking forward to writing about, looking forward to sharing. But for now, I will relax. Pray for you. Pray for Shawna. I’ll scribble down thoughts on napkins and spend extra time in His Word.

Is there some inconvenience thrown your way today? How might you smile and choose to tuck yourself into His plan for the day in a different way than you realized? How can the inconvenience alert you to His activity? Prompt you to pray? Bring you back to your knees? I pray grace for you today, for whatever comes your way. And perhaps, friends, you might pray for the 6 of us tucked into a pick-up for 12 hours today. :) Thank you so much for reading.