The Flexibility of Life

It has been a quite a day. It's almost 5:00 pm and my plan (note the word plan) had been to write my blog first thing this morning– like at 7:45. However, I've been dodging curve balls all day. And quite a few good things have happened. Tomorrow I will catch up, but today was a reminder of the lesson of flexibility.

The kitchen faucet started to leak on Monday (compounded by replacing the water heater two weeks ago). It had been repaired two years ago and I knew a new one was going to happen one day. Tuesday morning I bought a new one, but when Greg and I contacted two plumbers and didn't hear back from either of them, I started to worry.

And I especially began to worry today when I went out for an hour and came home to find water not just under the sink (we had buckets and towels soaking up the water), but also under the dishwasher. I couldn't wait any longer, even though I had a long list of things I needed to do. 

Thankfully, a friend had told me yesterday how reasonable and good her plumber is. He was at my house within twenty minutes (yes!) and despite feeling a little overwhelmed (apparently acupuncture today didn't do much good for my stress), within an hour John had easily replaced the faucet (easily is important here– we all know how repair jobs lead to second and third trips to Home Depot or Lowes) and I could use my kitchen faucet without having to worry about what was going on below.

It was a quick fix despite my worry. And always the lesson I can never quite learn: be flexible and remember it will all get done. After all, there is tomorrow. So for now I'm off for my afternoon swim. Everything will be waiting for me in the morning and I'll get it done even though in this moment I am not sure sure of that.