The best laid schemes!

It was Robert Burns, the national poet of my homeland, that wrote, "The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a glay" (apologies for any spelling mistakes)If memory serves me correct it is from his poem, "To a mouse" which he wrote after turning over and destroying a mouses nest whilst plowing.
I mention this poem not just because I have been writing this blog for nearly two weeks and I have not mentioned Scotland once but also as an excuse/reason for any interuptions in service. I have been writing my blog on my small netbook and as I mentioned previously, to ease me into the thought of a daily blog and to shoehorn it into an ever increasing Christmas diary and workload, I have been trying to store up some blogs(I am about four days ahead)unfortunately it would seem my net book has caught the equivalent of swine flu and is refusing to work this means; I am restricted to my main computer, not a major problem until I discover and realise that my main computer runs Windows XP as does my netbook but sadly whereas my netbook has Office 97 (I think) my main has an older version which results in all my saved blogs being unreadable on my main computer. So for the present here I am at 5am on a Saturday morning trying to catch up, get ahead and stay ahead. As I said, "The best laid schemes..."

Thinking about it however, in the great scheme of things...

       Mary and Joseph had their plans. A new life together, starting a family, Mary looking forward to her wedding and setting up home, Jospeh probably had dreams of his son/s following him into the family business.Perhaps as a couple they had sat talking about all their hopes and plans and dreams once they were married just as any couple would. They had not accounted for God however and what His plans for them were, yet both with little or no complaint gave up their plans and obeyed and followed God changing their lives forever...

      and here I am bemoaning a computer glitch! But still

 BAH HUMBUG!!!!