Go with the flow

I try to be a fairly scheduled person, although there is always a gliche in the plan. Today I met my mom half way to pick up her van since we are currently in the process of buying another vehicle to fit our crew. I drove 45 minutes to meet her and 45 minutes back only to find out that I had left my way into my house in the car that my mom is now driving. I proceeded to then drive 40 minutes to my husband's work to pick up the garage door opener in the rain. On the way home there was a back up on the interstate and it took me an hour and a half to get in town to pick up a cake for a shower and then my oldest from Kindergarten. Husband got stuck in the same traffic so we were late to preschool open house and then late to a baby shower.
I could not do anything about these situations except to go with the flow. There is nothing proactive necessarily that I could do to change my circumstances except to choose to be calm and roll with it. Life often calls for times of being proactive, but we equally need to know when to sit back, trust, and go with the flow. We are not in control and it is often in crazy days that we need to realize this fact. When I feel like I can no longer be proactive in my circumstances then I need to relax and to trust God.