Jimbo's Jots

As I write this, I’m sitting in my family room, watching a college football game. The game is in the early the second quarter. The two teams have totally different approaches to the gameplay. Each hoping to end the night of football with a victory. One team has had the ball for only 3 minutes and I think has had four plays on offense and has already scored 2 touchdowns. The other team has had the ball one time and scored a touchdown, holding onto the football for almost 11 minutes and ran 21 plays on offense. Two different approaches to winning a game.

What’s your gameplan in life? How do you approach it? Are you a planner or are you a “go with the flow” person? Do you want to experience everything as fast as possible? Or do you like to experience the slowness of every day? Everyone is different in the way they like to live.

I’m more of a “go with the flow” type. My wife is a planner. Several years ago, we decided to take a trip to northern Michigan. Here’s my approach to planning the trip. We’ll go to this city and then when we’re done there, we’ll move on to the next one. Then, when we’re done there, we’ll go to this next one up the road. Really, there was no real structure to the trip. When my wife realized there was “no plan”, she got on her phone and started to find sight seeing adventures along our travels. We found a place call “Old Faceful”. It is an artisan well spews water out of a pipe from the ground. It ended up being a great trip as we gallivanted across northern Michigan.

Remember the story of the prodigal son. We always talk about the prodigal and the older son. We talk about the attitude of the father. Here’s a different perspective. Each of the brothers were born to the same parents. Yet, each had a different gameplan and different idea of what would be best for their life. Each looked at success differently. The older brother looked at life being a life well thought out and planned. The younger brother had a different gameplan. He wanted to live a life that was fast paced and unplanned. In the end, when both of them talked to the father, the father still accepted and loved each of the sons as they were.

So again, what’s your gameplan? Which son are you most like? Just know, you’re heavenly Father is there to talk to you and accept you as you are.

Be blessed and be a blessing!