All the World's a Stage...

There are a few things in my life that I wish I had more control over. My initial reaction is to start thinking about all the possible ways I could get more control.  Then I begin to think about all the different things I could do with that control.  Pretty soon, I'm Mother Theresa caring for the poor, administering justice and bringing peace to all.  Yes, I'm laughing too.  Like Shakespeare said, "All the world's a stage and all the men and women, merely players."  I catch myself all the time trying to be the director instead of one of the players.  A lot of us egotistical people do that, which is probably why life often looks like a really poorly written play.  Most of us are not willing to play our specific parts.  We want a starring role even if we don't have the ability to memorize more than 3 lines.  Or we want to rewrite some of our lines.  And there are people who are in the play and don't know it.  And there are people who are in the play, but refuse to accept they are in the play.  I'm sure there are thousands of combinations of blunders. 
The reason I like a play as a metaphor for life is because it reminds me of when I watched my kids perform in a school play.  They were SO serious about getting their lines just right or singing the right song or holding up the right sign at the right time, when as parents, we were so proud to have them on stage at all and they were perfect no matter what they did wrong, sometimes even making a blunder that marked the play as "perfectly" adorable to us.  I think that's how God feels when he watches me try to direct and rewrite and play someone else's part. I'm perfectly adorable.  Ha.
I gotta get to bed.  It's late and I have a big day tomorrow and I have to remember to find my lines and get away from the director's chair and just play my part. I think I'll be much happier.  And I bet the people around me will be happier too.  :)