Arrangements

this is a word that i'm starting to get annoyed with...

i have to make "wedding arrangements"

i have to re-"arrange" my office

i have to make flight/lodging "arrangements" for a show coming up and for the honeymoon...

i am forever "arranging" my schedule to fit my hectic lifestyle.


what i'm trying to decide is: does there come a point when things are sufficiently "arranged?"

Will i ever truly sit back in my chair behind an organized desk chair and say "Yes... this is arranged."
When 5 minutes later i'll need to grab a pen from the far side of my desk, knocking my Bojangles sweet tea, jumping up to grab it and slide around the desk while leaving my computer up and running , and a song halfway printed in the printer, with two sermon copies sliding out of the copier as i bump it on my way out the door... so much for arrangement!

perhaps what it takes is the discipline to continue arranging, in and through the circumstances...

sometimes i think that's what happens to my "life" arrangements as well... i think i have everything figured out, and apportioned properly, and prioritized correctly, and some shiny object distracts me just long enough so that when i look back, nothing really looks right anymore. The shiny object recently has been 'mortality' as displayed so poetically in the life of Linda Talley. In light of her testimony to God's relationship with mankind, do i really have my priorities arranged? do they stand to be rearranged as well as my office furniture and schedule?

perhaps i need to discipline myself to keep my changing priorities and growing schedule arranged in such a way that despite the schedule, and despite the circumstances, God is pleased with how i live, speak, and act.