Excuse Me…I Wasn’t Ready
This daylight saving time change is always a shock to my system.
This morning my youngest daughter, Faith, walked into my bedroom and dramatically declared, “I wasn’t ready!”
Now mind you, this is a 37-year-old educator saying this- not a child protesting bedtime.
She was genuinely whining because she wanted that hour back so she could stay up later, but the clock was already bossing her around, insisting it was time for bed.
I told her, “I don’t know what to tell you. Just go relax your mind and roll with it.”
I mean we do love the fact that when we get off work it’s daylight longer. There’s something about that extra sunlight in the evening that makes the whole day feel a little lighter.
But getting up that early in the dark…whew.
That part is rough.
If I’m being honest, when I woke up this morning, I laid there for a few minutes seriously contemplating what the best excuse would be for taking the day off. Or better yet-working from home- just to give myself a minute to glide into this new time.
You know…just a gentle transition.
Because this whole “spring forward” thing feels less like a gentle nudge and more like someone shoved the clock ahead and said, “Catch up.”
And apparently we’re all just supposed to adjust overnight.
Eventually we do what we always do - stretch, yawn a little, maybe complain a bit, and slowly settle into the new rhythm.
Because the truth is, even when the adjustment feels abrupt, there is still something good waiting on the other side of the shift.
In this case….longer evenings filled with sunlight.
And maybe that little moment with my daughter was also a reminder of something deeper about life.
Mama Wisdom Reflection
Sometimes life moves the clock ahead before we feel ready.
We lose time.
We lose comfort.
We lose the rhythm we had just gotten used to.
And how many times during our lives do we find ourselves crying out the same words my daughter did this morning - “But I wasn’t ready!”
From childhood moments when a friend suddenly threw the baseball before we had our bat set just right… to the much bigger moments in life when change came faster than we expected.
Life has a way of moving before we feel prepared.
Yet the scriptures gently remind us of something important: Be ye also ready.”
Not because we will always feel ready- but because life will keep moving forward.
So the wisdom is not in stopping the change. The wisdom is in learning how to meet it with faith, grace, and trust.
Take a breath. Adjust slowly. Trust that the new rhythm will come.
Because sometimes the shift that catches us off guard….is the very thing that eventually gives us more light at the end of the day.
“The moments we say “I wasn’t ready” are often moments life is quietly moving us into a new season.”
Mama Wisdom To Carry With You
Sometimes life moves the clock ahead before we feel ready.
Have you ever had a moment in life where you felt like saying, “I wasn’t ready?”
-Mama Wisdom
