Another bad day or God's divine guidance?

The phone rings. The number is one that I recognize as pain. I answer it. This person has the ability to get under my skin by simply breathing.

You probably don't know anyone like that.

So, she says "I don't want him to do my work, I want the other guy that I had before". I commence to tell her that fellow no longer works for me. (like that would pacify her...) She begins to whine and make personal remarks about my guys. (that work for me)

It's anger time baby, right. Time to pull out the AK47 tongue and give her some of her own medicine. People like this should be put in their place! Right! I mean, she's rude, I saw it coming, and she is now going personal. Simple - time to blast her and let it ruin both of our days!!! 

Here we go baby!

Wait a minute. How has this worked out in the past? Honestly, never well. I have leveled my fair share of the verbally under-qualified. But I'm different now. I have given God control, full control of my life. How would I handle this situation if I knew God was in control?

Dang IT! I want to give her a BLAST!

But I say something completely civil. I tell her that I will call the fellow that no longer works for me and see if he is interested. Whew. That was calming. I remembered that I cannot die on every hill; this one is not worth the battle.

Here's the cool thing. God is in control. I found out today that we have sold some more jobs and I am under-staffed for the next few weeks for sure. It turns out that it helps me! I don't have to pull any guys from production jobs and do this small thing! This saves us money and time as well as gets us to the next production job quicker.

I probably could have forced my hand and given her one of my current guys that would have done an excellent job. But she would have been mad and picked apart the work that he did, thus dragging out this menial task and delaying profits.

I'm glad God is in control and I kept my mouth shut.