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Do you ever have days where your best laid plans are hijacked? Well mine were today.  I had all these plans to work on my business and taxes until the phone started ringing which hijacked my plans.

How can I turn down lunch with a relative who has come to town from over 100 miles away? Or not answer the phone for a friend in need and yet again help out a young girl with her school project.  Relationships are important in the world. Man was created to be in relationship first and foremost.

Jesus Christ was "all" about relationship and building those ties. We are to emulate God the Father and Jesus concerning life.  Yet we need to have boundaries. Jesus had boundaries which are pretty well laid out. He also had "righteous anger".  There is a time and place for everything. 

I guess I will work on my business later this afternoon and into the evening.  Change my plans.  It is interesting how people think I am a stay at home mom that has nothing to do, but work very part time. I have my online internet marketing business and am taking classes. Many people think we sit around watching tv all day. Far from the truth if time was spent with us.

I have laid out a schedule for myself with some margin built in.  Even with an online business one needs to treat it as a business and set hours. If  one doesn’t do that we can easily be hijacked by other peoples agenda. Learning to say "no" was a very freeing thing to do.  Say "no" instead of saying you will do something and feel resentful.  God doesn’t  honor a heart  that is bitter and resentful.  I don’t think he really blesses such attitudes, so I have learned to say "no" if I am sure it is not a God ordained situation.

Don’t let yourself get hijacked by man’s plans or if your own plans. Ask if what your are doing is in God’s will and do you have a peace about the answer.  Having boundaries, however not mile high fences, is a healthy balance in life.