my goals / His goals…..

9/26/09…….are they the same? My goal has been to share a word study, of sorts, on each of the nine aspects of the “Fruit of the Spirit” through this blog. I first started my “fruit findings” June 22 and assumed I would have run the gamut on this topic in approximately 9 entries. That hasn’t happened. Some took more than one entry. Other topics kept coming up in between. I still have THOTS on faithfulness and I haven’t even gotten to gentleness and self-control yet. Lately, I’ve begun to realize that I might not get to them before I leave for Texas in 3½weeks. I have visions of trying to write about self-control while coming out from under anesthesia as I lie on my back at Baylor Medical Center. With that in mind, a new goal has been set---finish excogitating on these fruit qualities by October 19. Can I do it? Not sure. I just have to have a goal.

I’m a goal setter---a ”list checker-off-er.” Checking things off my list gives me such a sense of accomplishment that I’ve been known to add an already completed task to my list just for the satisfaction of checking it off. I do so love a sense of accomplishment, even if fleeting. I even rationalize that this practice helps me keep track of what I have done----at least until I misplace my list.

But God…………is “in charge” of this blog. Often, I wonder why I’m writing for public interpretation and yet more often I wonder what I’m suppose to write….and then my fingers just start typing. Most recently, the “piece to Peace” idea came to me in a dream, title and all. I kind of liked that---‘cause I knew it was His work.

I wonder if His goal is the October 20 deadline, as well. We’ll see! If it is, it will be a done deal.

The mind of man plans his way,
But the LORD directs his steps. (Proverbs 16:9)