A lesson in getting things done
December 27, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
I had a really vivid dream last night about having a suitcase full of stuff at a house that needed collecting. I could have just taken the suitcase with me to the car that was waiting up the road with my children in it but instead I decided to just leave it and get the car to come round to collect it.
When I got to the car we drove round to the house but first I needed to find the owner who had to pay back a deposit. I found him and we went to the house. When we arrived the door was open and the house had been broken into and everything was gone. All the Christmas presents my children had received and everything that was in the suitcase (except my sons school jumper that they left behind for me!)
I was really mad and started screaming at God to put it all back. I was banging the wall crying and screaming at God to bring back everything that had been taken away RIGHT NOW! My youngest son (who always seems to be in my dreams) was there watching me. I woke up upset and annoyed at having lost everything….. and here is the lesson that came to me.
Too many times I need to get something done and I don’t. I put it off for another day. For the last few days I have had a plan to write and get my accounts complete (yes I know it’s Christmas but the kids are away so I’m on my own and completing stuff ready for the New Year!) and because I haven’t been writing but moving it forward to the next day I am not now getting as much done as I wanted to. That has an impact on everything else I need to do and there will be consequences for that.
It’s a huge lesson for me about not doing what I need to do immediately but being lazy and putting it off. If I had just taken the suitcase with me I wouldn’t have lost everything but I didn’t want to. I decided it could wait while I go up the road and bring the car round instead. I just didn’t want to carry it with me so I left it behind.
When I don’t do something purely because I am being lazy and for no other reasons I will experience negative consequences as a result.
That was my lesson for today!
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