Character Confession: Allowing Recalibration
Earlier this week I met with a great group of ladies as part of the Greater Youngstown Praise and Coffee chapter. My dear friend Maria was the speaker on the unexpected, and until Panera threw us out because they longed to go home, we all shared our unexpected stories and God’s hand through all of it.
After all, not one part of our stories is unexpected to Him.
I drove home thinking about it all, and a visual came to mind.
Of all the things the unexpected reminded me of, it was Wii Rock band.
We are a quiet, introverted family. But when we have a snow day and/or snowy weekend, all bets are off. We each take our place, turn on the Wii, and it’s on.
I’m not a musician by any stretch, and the diva that I am, I fight the youngest for the microphone. This girl’s had her own lounge act played out in her mind for decades, and Wii Rock Band is my arena. But our oldest and my husband take turns on the instruments, each on the pro level. They know what they’re doing.
And sometimes they have to recalibrate.
Same game. Same instruments. Same song. But they have to reset the instrument to measure accurately, for lack of a better definition.
When I face the unexpected, it’s a recalibration. I’m usually in the same place, I’m the same, but something has changed. And the best thing I could do is get with the program and receive God’s plan. As I’ve said all week–what’s unexpected to you is not to God.
Sometimes my son lets the need to recalibrate go, and it never ends well. He ends up off beat, has trouble hitting the notes, and gets frustrated.
Isn’t that just like dragging your feet and refusing to roll with the punches? When I learned my husband was offered a job away from everything and everyone I knew, I could have refused the move. But I hit reset and our little family made the change. As unexpected as it was to me, my obeying God in it gave us blessing after blessing. In fact, years later the blessings still come.
Do I immediately surrender to God’s plan in the unexpected? Not always, but my reaction time is faster. I’m not afraid to recalibrate.
And I hope you won’t be, either.
