Getting Nowhere Fast!

Don't you love those days? The ones where you think you know where you are going and what your doing and then other peoples actions, your own second thoughts and your own preconceptions and inefficiency trip you up! Yes, it was like that yesterday. All my careful planning, laid waste. I think what bothered me most especially after thinking in my last post that I was beginning to get a handle on places and people discovering that err.. um.. mm.. it was the thing I thought I'd got sussed best; the geography of Northampton. I had to get to an appointment, I thought I knew where I was going, and it wasn't there! Well It hadn't moved I had obviously mistaken where I thought it was... but after an hour of driving round I ended going home and getting out the map..... I know, I know...! I usually have it at least in the car and usually in my handbag..... but as I was saying I thought I'd got Northampton cracked!
So much like my Christian journey; some times I'm so sure of my destination and then the next stage in the journey never quite looks like what I'd expected. There's no point getting frustrated, It usually happens because I've made assumptions about where God is leading and why, rather than me ending up in the wrong place like yesterday. So I need a reminder to go back to the map, and recheck... that actually in many cases it is the journey that is important and the people I journey with and what God is teaching us on that journey rather than this particular destination point. As for that appointment well it is reset for today and this time I am taking the map!