Murphy’s Law
says, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Write about a time everything
did — fiction encouraged here, too!
Bonus assignment: do you keep a notebook
next to your bed? Good. Tomorrow morning, jot down the first thought you have
upon waking, whether or not it’s coherent.
So, writing
fiction is NOT my strong point, but I do have an actual experience that
illustrates Murphy’s Law pretty well, I think.
It was 1997,
and my mom and I were preparing to take a plane to Hawaii the next morning for
my wedding and move from AL to Kwajalein.
Needless to say, it was a nerve-wracking day, and it started with my
discovery that my plane tickets to Hawaii had been packed out with my household
goods. YIKES! (Don’t forget that in 1997 there were no e-tickets, so if you
lost the paper ones, oh well.) After spending a good portion of the day
figuring out how to get me BACK on the plane (which meant my mom had to put the
one-way extra expensive ticket on her card-my limit wouldn’t allow it), we headed
back home to get our clothes washed up and packed. Well, that was not meant to
be either. The washer (or was it the dryer, mom?) broke. Either way, we could not complete the process
at her house, so we had to go down to the local laundry mat and finish our
clothes late into the night before our early morning flight. It really seemed that anything that could do
wrong did that day. Heck, I was already pretty anxious about flying, getting
married to a man I had not seen in several months, moving my entire life to a
small island in the middle of the ocean, etc….then all of this? Made me
question what I was doing, but I knew in my heart God was directing me to make
this change. I needed it for so many
reasons that I was not to discover until later.
So, what do
you do when Murphy’s Law kicks in for you…don’t let it bring you down. Remember
that whenever thing is going wrong, it’s often because something life changing
is about to happen. Don’t let it stop you from doing what you know you need to
do. Our greatest lessons often come from
adversity and times of testing. Murphy’s Law could simply be a precursor to a
time of great growth in your faith as long as you trust the path.
“If you
faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.” Proverbs 24:12
“Count it
all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that
the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have
its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” James 12:4
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