My Adult Temper Tantrums
Do you ever look at the 10-day weather forecast? Maybe you have an event coming up, and you want to get an idea what the weather will be a week and a half from now.
Well, I look at it almost every day. I like to have an idea what’s coming up. Will it be raining in 10 days? Will I need a sweater when I take AE to the playground the weekend after next?
I don’t have scientific data to prove or disprove this, but I have a hypothesis about the accuracy of a forecast for 10 days into the future. It isn’t accurate. It’s a guess.
But, I still look. I am a chronic planner. You might call me a life forecaster. I like to plan what we’ll be doing, feeling and experiencing in a week, a month, a year – even a decade.
It’s a problem. It’s a problem because control is a dangerous illusion. It’s a problem because when life doesn’t go according to plan, I am prone to adult temper tantrums.
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be talking about how God is patiently handling these fits of mine here in a series called Faith in the Unplanned Seasons.
In the meantime, are there any other planners out there? How do you handle it when you discover the forecast wasn’t accurate?
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Adult temper tantrums? Um, yes, guilty of that. I had a major, MAJOR realization 6 or 7 years ago when I was in my mid-twenties: I am not the ultimate boss of my own life, and I am definitely not the boss of everybody else’s. It was a shock to my system, to put it mildly!
I’m looking forward to what you have to say!
Comment by Anne @ Modern Mrs Darcy on October 27, 2011 at 8:57 pm
I love that and agree completely, Anne. I’m prone to forgetting, though. So, I regularly look in the mirror and say “You, my dear, are not the general manager of the universe!”
Comment by Jennifer Hoffman on October 27, 2011 at 9:05 pm