“What’s on the schedule for today?” This is a question we ask ourselves every day, and sometimes even multiple times a day.

While in Mozambique, I quickly learned that schedules are an American thing. There, schedules constantly changed, often in the middle of doing something else. The base schedule was posted on a white board that we had to check constantly. (It was genius to put it on a white board considering how often plans changed.) Living day by day, hour by hour, checking this white board became a discipline in patience, expectation, and grace.

For a planner like myself, it took some time to learn the graceful art of letting go and “going with the flow.” After all, “This is Africa” right? I quickly learned there is a certain level of grace that comes upon you as you embrace taking each day, each hour, as it comes. Planning is wonderful and needed, but I have come to appreciate the fine art of resting in the not knowing and the uncertainty of what the day may bring. 

In Mozambique, God fine-tuned my ability to listen, to wait, to walk in grace in the unknown. Let’s face it. Sometimes in life, we don’t have an answer for “what’s on today’s schedule?” and that is ok. Grace during uncertainty is abounding if we merely ask for it. His grace is sufficient, especially in the midst of weakness. 

Learning to rest in the unknown involves trusting in the thing that is certain, the thing that can’t be erased or changed: the Father’s love. No matter what, He loves us as His children, and we can be assured He has the best laid out plan for us. He can give us the grace in the waiting, the uncertainty, the unknown parts of our day-to-day, hour-by-hour lives. God is not threatened by the instability of our lives because He is stable and He knows “what’s on the white board.” He is the one writing on it.