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You have the vision, the plan, the focus. The need is clear, the gifts necessary to meet the need are not only understood, but you have them. Everything is planned out from beginning to end. Distractions and variables are also factored in. As the time approaches, there is no doubt as to what you are doing or how you will achieve your goal, your direction. So, you reach into your closet to grab your pants or skirt, quickly slip on your shoes and top it off with your coat. Well on your way, to your horror, you notice, the coat-it's the wrong one! The shoes, though similar, one is brown, the other black. Your heart sinks images of incompetence flood your mind. Frustration. The embodiment of frustration.

Hear the Good News, plans that are of God can meet frustration after frustration, barrier after barrier, yet it will not see failure. The Apostles, though they met with a great deal of frustration, opposition, and even pain, they were following the plan of God. This undertaking belonged to one greater than any opponent. "If God is for me, who then can be against me?" We will all meet frustration and disappointment in our life, but the truly important things in life, God, Family, Humanity, as these meet with frustration and disappointment, know that God is present and God will not be overthrown. Work is work, petty is petty, but Life and God, they transcend all.

Prayer:

Gracious Father, frustration enters my life, oh, too often. I doubt myself, my life and my own direction. At times like this, I need Your reassurance. I need to know that what I am doing with my life is faithful to that which You want from me. I have been so fortunate to see Your activity in the life, of my family, my friends and my church, I hope to see this presence all of my life. Keep me solely focused on You all of my days, as I do understand and believe that those plans that are of your origin will not meet with human demise. Thank You for all You have done in my life, and all You will continue to do, through Christ our Lord I pray. Amen.