By Oying Isidoro
“Starting this year, I will be using a digital planner.” I had made up my mind as early as December of last year, as not to bother gathering stickers for the Starbucks planner or even checking out the new planner designs for 2026.
But as I have shared at the Feast last month. When I synced my Google Calendar with my Apple Calendar, I lost everything I wrote in my Apple Calendar. It was sheer recklessness, not even bothering to check if I had cloud back up for my planner.
So instead of going full steam ahead, I slightly stalled because I needed to reorganize and plot the dates again. I almost accepted an invite to preach on a day when I am supposed to be a god father to a wedding. I was just thankful I double checked.
With all that has happened, I retracked what I said and whispered to God, “I need a paper planner.”
So over the weekend, Lyra and I went to the mall, and I decided to buy one.
Unfortunately for me, the bookstores that we visited already pulled out their planners.
Come Monday morning, I was thinking of going to the mall again in hopes of being able to buy one, but as I was praying that morning, I heard God speaking to me.
“Do you still have that old Piso Planner?”
That is when I remembered I had an unused planner. So I tried looking for it the whole day, but to no avail, and at around midnight, I already gave up, thinking I might have given it to somebody else. As I was putting back all the old books that I took down from my bookshelf, I accidentally saw the Planner stacked underneath one of the boxes of my books.
I was happy to see it.
Two months have passed for 2026, but it’s never too late to start now.
“In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.” -Proverbs 16:9 (NIV)