Congrats to the winners from over the weekend. They are:

The Let It Snow giveaway: Lacy Joy T.

The winner’ of a pdf of Darlene Schacht’s ebook The Good Wife’s Guide:

April Bryson

Jennifer Rae

Tonya Taylor

Monica (the Monica who left a c0mment on 1:20 at 4:47 pm)

Congrats gals! Shoot an email to my assistant Kim at kim@proverbs31.org telling her what you won and giving her your contact info.

It is one of “those” days.

You know the kind.

Almost a half-dozen phone calls to make.

Two errands to run.

Laundry calling my name.

No dinner planned yet.

A few friends’ prayer requests laying heavy on my heart.

I need to tackle some mail.

I need to take my phone into the cell phone store since it is acting up AGAIN!!!!! Ugh!

I need to be in two places at one time tonight–speaking at my church’s Mugs & Muffins ladies night out and picking my son up from weight-lifting.

(Time to call the neighbor to request shuttle service for the man-cub).

I need to consult my freezer for something to thaw and cook.

You get the picture. I’ll bet it is often your snapshot too!

On one of “those days”, I remember the words I read as a young mom from the pen of one of my favorite authors.

DO THE NEXT THING.

Great advice.

However, over the years, I’ve had to tweak that saying just a bit. Too easy to get distracted and make my “next thing” some time-wasting trivial pursuit.

Or a wrong thing like wasting time worrying.

Or day dreaming.

Or doing a task that really doesn’t need to be done right now just to feel productive when in reality it is a way of procrastinating.

So instead of just doing the next thing, I will do the next “right thing.”

(I heard this friend once encourage her audience to do just that.  Then, soon after, I  spotted it on a t-shirt. I get the message God. )

So, that is where I am headed now. To my “next right thing.”

How about you?

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