Bees are Coming!

I just got the call. My honeybees will be coming tomorrow! I've been wondering when my bee-buddies would call and deliver my new hive. I can't believe the day is here. Well, almost here. A part of me is still apprehensive. After all, it is another thing to put on my to do list and I do tend to swell up when I'm stung. Still I'm going to try it. Bees fascinate me and just think of the honey!
In other farming news, it has been a week of realizing how little control I have over my farm and my plans. Sure I make spreadsheets of what seeds are planted when, and how many in the greenhouse. I have spreadsheets of when to transplant those seedlings outside in the fields. I have maps of what crops will go where. I have weekly project lists that are scheduled into october. Yet for all this God gets the final say. It has been over a week since I've been able to take a tractor out into the fields, which means I am a week behind in transplanting and almost two weeks behind in tilling. Not an easy place to be for a first year farmer, or for any farmer. It's just rained so much over the past week and a half. The fields haven't had time to dry out. So I figure out what other things I can do while I wait.
There are moments of stress and frustration. Even now I feel myself tensing up. But that's not the end of the story. I know that God is faithful and that God will take care of me. I am reminded of how dependent I am, how vulnerable I am. That's not a lesson that is easy to learn, but in the end is comforting. It's comforting because God is in control, not me. Though I can come up with a pretty good and fairly thorough plan, there will still be faults. And honestly, though it's hard to let go of my plans (in farming and in other things), I'd much rather have God in control than me.
So with that in mind I will continue to wait for my fields to dry. My bees will come tomorrow. Hopefully, I will soon be driving the tractor again. I'll keep you posted.