Bournagain

Being an eternal optimist I have always been pretty sceptical about Murphy’s Law. This week has cured me of my scepticism. We leave here in 3 days for 4 months sabbatical, and it seems like everything is conspiring against us getting on that plane.

In the last few days we have had a leak in our house (resulting in no heating, irregular water supply, a gooey plastery mess and lots of phone calls to the insurer), we have been taken to the cleaners by a dodgy plumber, we have lost a credit card, Elise sprained her finger due to an altercation with a basketball, there is a seemingly unsolveable administrative problem with our social security over the fact that we are out of the country for 4 months, there is another wrangle due to a miscommunication over our car insurance, a low flying soccer ball upended a cup of tea into the computer keyboard - colds, headaches, and a strained back needing physiotherapy - how can all this happen in a week?? It’s like being in the middle of a hurricane. And somehow normal life has had to continue through it all.

Somebody asked me on the phone tonight how it was going, and I blurted out “there is hope”. Don’t know why I said that because humanly speaking it all looks pretty disastrous right now. But there really is an underlying peace - there’s a conversation going on, and God is saying, “you just wait and see how I work all this out.” I realise I can’t demand that everything work out the way I want it to - maybe we will leave the country with some of these disasters unresolved. But the point is learning to be confident in God through it all. Knowing that doesn’t automatically dissolve the hard knot I have in my stomach right now, but it gives perspective which helps maintain a straight course in adverse conditions.

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