Have you ever found yourself in a situation that seems difficult, How did you get out?

Last weekend was filled with so many
activities I needed to engage in.
At my church, we were going to have a 3-day program in preparation for our 16th anniversary. As a chorister of the church, I needed to be present.

The program started on Friday

...and the grand finale was on Sunday. According to the arrangement for the choristers, I was meant to lead the praise and worship on Friday and all choir members were meant to get to church by 5 pm so we would have enough time to rehearse the song we were going to minister on that day because the service was going to start by 6 pm.

On Saturday, we all had to resume by 2 pm to rehearse the song for Saturday and the song for the grand finale which was on Sunday.

Unfortunately,

..the anniversary program clashed with the wedding of my spouse's cousin.

To be honest, I didn't feel like attending the wedding due to some reason. I planned to only go to the wedding at the exact time it would be starting, I didn't want to work for the party in any way at all.

Homer Simpson

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I thought to myself that there's no point in faking an act when I know it's not genuine because there would certainly be no reward for it. I got to their house on Friday morning, hoping that they would have gone to the market to get things in preparation for the wedding.

On getting there, I saw that there was no preparation going on apart from the girl I saw doing her hair. I decided to help out with the hair until it was 4:30 pm. I had to leave at that time because I needed to be in church by 5 pm for the rehearsal, also I had to get ready for the service because I was going to lead in praise and worship.

My instinct told me that

...they expected that I would be spending the night helping out with the things that were needed to be done.

Even if I was supposed to be there, I decided not to be there because I didn't feel like being there.

The next day,

...which was the day of the wedding, I got there as early as 8 am, hoping that the wedding would start at most by noon, still keeping in mind that I had to leave the place early so I can get to church by 2 pm.

I waited from 8 - 11 am, before the sister of the bride came to me so I would do her makeup. Good thing, I went with my makeup bag. After doing her makeup, I did her mom's makeup, when I was done, I checked the time and saw that it was already past 2 pm, immediately I took my bag and hurriedly left for church. Unfortunately, I didn't see any bikes around to take us to the next bus stop.

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Could you believe that at past 2 pm, the wedding had not started and to make matters worse, a heavy downpour began.

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I had to find a place to shield myself and my son from the rain.

Finally, I got to church, joined the rehearsal, and at 6 p.m, we were done with the rehearsal.

I thought about the fact that my role as a chorister for that Saturday was to back up the lead singers. I didn't have much personal task to do, so I decided to just miss the program just so I could attend the wedding.

I'm sure that if I had decided to stay in church and not go to the wedding, perhaps they would have had something to talk about but do I care?

Hell no!

I don't care.

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I'm grateful that it's all over now, the grand finale of the anniversary was a success, so was the wedding.