Getting side-tracked can be a good thing

I started out this morning with grand plans to re-design my choir newsletter along the lines of some I brought home from a conference in January.
But then I opened my e-mail and there was a very nice note from “little Sarah,” grand-daughter of my friend, Sarah, writing about John Rutter and asking for more information from me.
I dug into my assignment and found some information about Rutter, and a photo. I converted one of our Magnificat tracks to mp3 and put it online for her. I found a Latin-English translation of the Magnificat and put the words of the track into the e-mail for her. I told her about watching him conduct in Wichita, KS, of all places.
Then there were some other distractions, such as looking for, and attempting to use, non-Quicken software. (It didn’t work.)
So here we are, having a “dee-dah day.”

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I like John Ortberg’s book, The Life You’ve Always Wanted, rather muchly. He has a novel idea of spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disiciplines are, for example:

• not just something I do for 40 days, but for life
  
• not just doing something or not doing something, but becoming the image of God in me.
  
• not boring things, but exciting things, like not wearing a watch for a whole day.
  

I had hoped to read more of Ortberg this morning, but it didn’t work out.

Growing in grace is a good thing, and isn’t always a hard thing.

Don’t beat yourself up so much (advice I'm trying to take myself).