Day 82 - intentional following on a phone!

Day 82 and at this very minute United Airlines are not my favorite company. Been on hold for 1 hour 10 minutes on one phone and 19 minutes on my other phone, and their website is not helping me. Seems they have cancelled my flight for tomorrow, but they won't answer their phones to let me rebook!
Don't you love automated answering machines!

So ....as I wait on both phones, how's my intentional following of Jesus going?

Patience ...that's a fruit of the Spirit. Being tested and beginning to crumble.
Kindness ...that's a fruit of the Spirit. Nope, that one is going as well.
Gentleness ..another fruit of the Spirit. And as I rehearse what I'm going to say to the operator when he or she finally answers me ....gentleness is slipping badly!!

Help!!

I mean, when placed alongside the important and big things of life, this is minor.
Today, I sat with a new widow planning her husbands funeral; I emailed a friend about a Muslim who I can't contact for fear of his life; I heard from a friend who is going for unexpected surgery next week.......to this add, world poverty, AIDS, and world peace ....but I'm losing it waiting a phone call being answered.

Help!

Why do I become so engrossed in my own tiny world so easily?

Help!

And here's the recent update .......one of my phones reached a United operator and after they didn't want to help me - they hung up!!!

But still.....the world is spinning and why do I let my own little spinning world make the bigger spinning world spin more!

Surely intentional following of Jesus is resting in Him and not spinning.
Surely intentional following is not losing it over cancelled flights.
Whatever it might be.......it must involve letting the big things be big and the little things be what they are little.

Now talking to nice United agent.......but hey its a little thing anyway!!