You made the plan.
You knew what mattered. You gave it a place on the calendar.
Then…
Tuesday happened.
Something took longer than expected. Someone needed you. An appointment moved. A problem landed in your inbox.
And suddenly, the week you planned isn’t the week you’re living.
So you start moving things (of course, cuz that’s what planners do).
Tuesday’s unfinished work goes to Wednesday. Wednesday was already full, so something gets pushed to Thursday. The margin disappears. The laptop comes back out after dinner.
And by Friday, you’re thinking:
I’ll start again Monday.
But here’s what I want you to notice:
You probably don’t struggle to start.
You’re a capable woman. You know how to make the list, block the calendar, set the alarm, buy the planner.
The harder part is knowing what to do when you’ve made a good plan...
and real life doesn’t follow it.
That’s what we’re talking about in this week’s episode—and the shift may change what you do the next time your Tuesday at 10 doesn’t go according to plan.
When a good plan becomes something you’re serving
Proverbs 16:9 says:
“The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.”
Scripture doesn’t tell us not to plan.
Planning can absolutely be an act of wise stewardship.
But we make Sunday’s plan without knowing what Tuesday will hold.
God doesn’t.
And somewhere between Sunday and Tuesday, a plan we prayerfully made with God can quietly become something we’re trying to hold together ourselves.
That’s led me to a question I haven’t been able to shake:
Could my frustration when the plan changes sometimes reveal that I was trusting the plan more than the One I made the plan with?
Because maybe faithfulness isn’t measured by how closely Tuesday resembles the plan you made for it on Sunday.
And maybe “getting back on track” isn’t actually what God is asking of you.
That’s the shift I unpack in this week’s episode.
What if you don’t have to “make up” the time?
Here’s something else to notice.
When an unexpected problem takes the three hours you’d planned to use for something else, what happens next?
Often, those three hours become a debt.
You work through lunch.
Give up your margin.
Open the laptop again that night.
Borrow from tomorrow.
And that’s how one disrupted morning becomes a disrupted week.
But what if the interruption isn’t automatically a debt you have to repay with the rest of your time?
That’s where stewardship requires something more than rearranging the calendar.
It requires discernment.
And if you’re thinking, But when everything feels important, how do I know what actually deserves my yes?—that’s exactly why I created the free REDEEM Her Time Starter Kit.
It will help you begin discerning what matters today and give it a place to live without trying to control every minute.
Build a week that can hold real life
Knowing what faithful stewardship looks like is one thing.
Practicing it when Tuesday actually happens is another.
That’s the deeper work we’re doing inside the Stewardship Circle.
As a paid subscriber, you’ll get my Faithful Week Framework to help you discern what matters, give those priorities a place to live, build in margin for what you can’t predict—and create a week you don’t have to start over every Monday.
And when the plan does change, you’re not left to figure it out alone.
Through Hey Lissa, you can bring me your real-life Tuesday-at-10 moments:
Here’s what I planned. Here’s what changed. How do I discern what still deserves my yes?
Because sometimes you don’t need another framework.
You need support practicing faithful stewardship in the life you’re actually living.
The week you planned won’t always be the week you live.
That doesn’t mean you have to start over.
There’s another way to respond—and it’s the one simple practice I want you to hear in this week’s episode.
So if you haven’t listened yet, scroll back up and hit play.
Time is sacred. Stewardship is strategic.
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