Lack of Information

Recently my kids have suffered from lack of information. Junia had conversations related to applying to grad school in which someone could have told her she needed to be retested and saved us the last minute nightmare and exorbitant expense we are now facing. Luke had conversations about trying out for baseball in which someone could have told him he needed NCAA certification and saved us the extra money to rush that process.

I have been pondering why these things happen, but to no avail. I guess it is not other people's responsibility to give us information that we need. Yet we don't always know the questions we need to ask.

Max De Pree says leadership is asking the right questions, and the most important is who do we intend to be, not what are we going to do.

So we didn't ask the right questions, we didn't even know what the questions were. As for how they relate to who we intend to be, we'll have to trust that somehow God is using these frustrations to build us into those people.

These are definitely temporary battles, looming large in this moment but shrinking into insignificance in the course of our lifetime.

Lord help me to keep that in perspective when all I can see is the windmill I am fighting.