All in Time

Jauary 4, 2011

I found myself waking up to my alarm at 6 p.m. caught in this middle realm between today and tomorrow. Should I say good morning or good evening?

Time, why has society placed an absolute value on something so relative?

Some cultures, like Belize, consider it customary to be hours late to events, where other societies, like the US, says you are the arse of the evening if you are ten minutes late.  Never mind the crazy traffic or the bad hair day.

Then you have the ultimate double standard. . . daylight savings time and time zones. These imposed rules based on nothing more than a mere idea govern everything from the time the coffee brews to opening of the stock exchange.

Bringing it home, Michael and I work in Eastern millitary time, and live in central time, with the cultural imposition of Ozark central time. If we are late two minutes, our driver rating goes down, but if we are early, no one is offering any extra bonuses, or even a good ole' pat on the back. The joys of corporate eastern time. . .

Uncertainty, perhaps is the only certainty in life. I find myself uncertain of what time to sleep, what time to wake up. My circadian rythm has stayed the same, so although I wake up at 2:30 am., I'm sleepy until 6 a.m. When I wake up at 6 p.m. I still get sleepy at 10 p.m.

More than just my sleep time is uncertain, I find uncertainty in when our next load will be, we had more than we could say grace over, then nothing for two weeks.  I am uncertain of what next week's paycheck will be, uncertain of what part of the country I will be in. . . 

However, one thing I will clarify is uncertainty does not insinuate and is definitely not synonomous with un-stable /instability. The greatest example of us actually answering everyone's question of  "What are you thinking?!" Is Matthew 6:25-34. Or, as my friend Kerri would say, "No worries!"

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[a]?
   ²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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First load of 2011

• January 4,  8 p.m. cst -Leave West Plains and head to Poplar Bluff
• 10 p.m. cst - Pick  up swap load of braced 1x3 frames for Lazy Boy furniture
• Drive all night
• January 5, 7a.m. cst -deliver load to Lazy Boy mfg. plant in Neosho, MO

As Michael says, from one end of the road to the other!

Hopefully, tomorrow Panther will have my status changed to a co-driver for our truck and we will begin the New Year as official team drivers. I passed my Class B CDL on December 29.  There's still (somehow) money in the bank. God really does provide!