Do you ever feel like you can never quite get your ducks in a row?! As much as I try, it just seems like things never quite work out the way I thought they would. Life takes unexpected turns. Disappointments lie around the corner. The more we live the more we realize we are in a scratch and dent world. Why is that? My tendency to want to control the ducks is really my tendency to want to rely on myself instead of the Lord. Those scratches and dents remind us that He and He alone is to be our source of peace and joy. The Apostle Paul writes in 2 Thessalonians 5:16-18, “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (ESV).