Today I came into work to try to complete something. I ran into problem after problem. And each of these problems turned out to be something out of my control. While I was on hold with the help desk for about the third time I put my phone on speaker. On my desk is an old hourglass, the kind with sand. I also have one of those things that you turn over and these little colored drops of oil (in water I suppose) works it's way down a ramp. So here I sit, typing away, watching the sands of the hourglass and the little colored balls floating down their ramps, and the speaker phone is playing elevator music. It's all very therapeutic, but doesn't resolve my problem. And I'm sitting there thinking about how messed up things are. Not just at work, but everywhere, the whole world.

Then softly, quietly, I hear the Holy Spirit whisper......."It Just Doesn't Matter"

I say, "What?"

He says, "It just doesn't matter, God is God, Jesus is Lord, and I love you, and you love me"

I smiled. I laughed. I cried.

Sometimes you have to be confronted with enough things out of your control to recognize what does matter.