The Reviver Hearts radio program was just a few years old.

We were recording at that time in Little Rock, Arkansas.

And our producer, Hugh Duncan, set his planner on the hood of his car.

Now, this was one of those paper-based task planning systems in a binder.

Get the picture? Remember those?

Well, when Hugh got in the car, he forgot to

retrieve his planner. And as he drove off, the planner flew off the top of the car and fell down

a drain in the road. When I first heard that story, I got to tell you, it made me a little nervous.

Our staff was a lot smaller back then, and Hugh was responsible

for a ton of details for the Daily Reviver Hearts program. If he couldn't keep track of his

tasks, that could mean serious trouble for all of us. This is the Reviver Hearts podcast

with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For June 7th, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

So, what happened, Nancy? Was Hugh's planner lost? Did Revive Our Hearts suffer because of unfinished tasks?

No, it didn't. Hugh told us that he pulled off to the side of the road and used a tire iron

to open a manhole cover where the planner had fallen. He climbed down and retrieved his planner

out of the gutter. So mercifully, catastrophe was averted for Hugh

and for Revive Our Hearts. But that story reminds me how our to-do lists can sometimes

make us a little anxious. Don't we all know what it is to be nervous that we may be forgetting

a task that we've committed ourselves to? That's why we work so hard to keep track of tasks and stay

organized. And we should do that. God is glorified when we show discipline and self-control. We do need

some way to organize our work to help us serve God and others. And using a good system can keep us from

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