Todays trouble is enough for today...

It was a normal morning of activity around the farm.  My wife, Chera was preparing for the farmers market, I was up enjoying a nice cup of coffee contemplating the day ahead.  As I often do in the morning I was sipping my coffee while staring out the window to the East, watching the pink glow of the sun as it rose over the hill.  As I was enjoying this wonderful view, I watched a group of our Thanksgiving turkeys run across the driveway.  "Hmmmmm, turkeys don't go there?"  was my thought as I took another sip of coffee.  It was one of those moments when my mind wasn't completely aware of what was happening, and then it hit, "Oh man, the turkeys are out."  About that moment Chera came up from the garage and said "Turkeys are out."  Yep that confirmed it.  "No big deal", I thought.  They're not in any danger, I will just finish my coffee then go out and get them back in.  Then I turned and looked out my South window.  Change of view, check out the valley and Horse Heaven Hills, beautiful.  Now a new thought entered my mind, "Why is my cow inside my chicken tractor?".  It is 5:30 in the morning, my mind isn't quite ready for all this stimulation.  As I stare in disbelief I see that all three of my chicken tractors have been destroyed, chickens are scattered in the pasture and cows are enjoying the chicken feed for breakfast.  "Stupid cows."
My first goal was to get my turkeys back into their pasture.  Sounds easier than it is folks.  If you have ever owned turkeys or worked with them you will understand me when I say that their capacity for intelligent thought is lacking.  I would chase they would run away.  Then they would follow me as I would walk away.  It was like playing the kids game, "Red light/Green light".  As long as my back was to them, they would follow me where I walked.  As soon as I would turn and look at them they would scatter.  So.... I kinda had fun with that for awhile, I mean "why not, right?".  Soon I was joined outside by my two son's and my neighbor who had been watching my activity from next door, (for how long, I don't know).  With four turkey herders we were much more effective and we got the turkeys back into their pasture.  Now that the turkeys were where they were supposed to be I stood back to reflect one why they had gotten out.  Two days before I had noticed that they were getting the pasture eaten down and they were ready to move to a new pasture.  Unfortunately, I let other things catch my attention and kept putting it off.  So the reason they finally pushed through their fence was they wanted fresher pasture grass to eat, only makes sense.
Now it was off to my destroyed chicken tractors.  Our "chicken tractors" are simply moveable, bottomless pens that I move around the pasture so my chickens can continually graze on fresh pasture and still be protected from predators. The cows had did quite a number on the structure of the tractors and it took me some time to repair them enough to hold chickens again.  Then I spent another hour or so chasing chickens to repopulate the tractors.  While I was doing all this i kept thinking that just the week before I had decided that it wasn't a good idea to house the cows and chickens tractors in the same pasture.  They had been doing fine together for some time but I knew that a blow up was imminent.  My plan was to move the cows to the North pasture, but I got busy doing other things and it just never happened.
By the time I finished corralling chickens it was near 10 o'clock in the morning and I hadn't even started my regular morning chores or fed the kids breakfast.  With Chera at market all day, and me starting basically 4 hours behind, you can imagine I wasn't feeling too optimistic about my chances on this particular day.
The rest of the day I struggled with a bad attitude to say the least.  I really didn't enjoy the day and remained behind in my work for a few days because of this messed up day.   It was then that I remembered something that Jesus said that I hadn't thought of in this way before.
Matthew 6: 34 So do not worry about tomorrow.  Let tomorrow worry about itself.  Living faithfully is a large enough task for today.
  On this particular day this verse hit me a little different.  You see, I had all kinds of things to worry about on this day.  However, I got to thinking, if I had only done the things that I knew needed done in the past days, I wouldn't have had to go through the worries I was facing today.  The Lord spoke to me on this.  If I truly give my full effort today and do the things He put before me today, most of "tomorrows" worries will be taken care of before they even occur.  Attack that to-do list, both the spiritual and worldly to-do list today!!