mid-day friday post

i don't think that i have posted many mid-day posts, or at least it has been a long time.
this is my mid-day rant...i hate the preperation work. i hate sitting in the office trying to make sure that every thing is ready for the actual work that has to be done. i hate getting everything lined up, straightened out, double checked...i hate it all. your like...'dude, that's a lot of hate!' ...'yes it is!' , because that is how much i dis-like what i classify as "busy work".

i have a new account that is going on-line tomorrow. so, things have to be right and ready!

although i hate the prep work, it is absolutely necessary that it is done and done right. otherwise, when the "real work" happens...we have the potential to look like idiots. so, i procrastinate and i complain while i am doing the prep work.

i think this is my life most times. i am a big picture guy. get me at the front of the deal, center of the program and i am happy, comfortable and successful. or let me throw out 50 ideas of how things ought to be and cast a compelling vision. just don't ask me to dabble in the minutia of details. unfortunately or fortunately...depending on how you look at it, i am learning that true success happens because of the details. not in spite of them.

back to work! have a great halloween weekend!

discipline, envy and honesty

ok, this thought has been going through my head lately..BUT, this is not a thought out post...make sense?

i am very envious of people who are highly disciplined.  that is the honesty part of it...people who work out, run...people who are organized, people who are task and goal orientated....people who are have strong spiritual disciplines.  i am envious of those people.  not the people who can for a season be disciplined...but the one's who set out for a life of disciplined action.

i am not one of those people, yet.  and, to be honest again,  it pisses me off !  i know what is good for me...we all do.  if not spiritually then at least health wise, why is it so hard to be disciplined.  spending money, managing time, setting priorities, spending time on the important things, spending time with the Lord.

anyway...i am envious.  i am thinking through this stuff right now.  how do i become more disciplined?  i am guessing it isn't just as easy as it sounds. if it were people would just react, i would just set a plan of actions and follow them.  the problem isn't the set of actions it is the motive behind the action.  i am guessing it goes deeper into another level.  or i might just be over thinking it...

back and forth

one of the coolest things about leading anything is when you have someone you led, lead you.  i am not the greatest leader by any stretch of the imagination.  i am not in any category of great leaders, but i was a leader when a kid named aaron hill was in a youth group at hopedale baptist church.  i cant really claim any of his accomplishments or anything...but it was a cool night, to say the least.

tonight he preached his first sermon...he did awesome!  i didnt think he was nervous or fidgety, he didnt stutter or say, umm, 50 times.  and he taught the word of God.  he encouraged me and challenged me.  he taught from romans 12....and the one thing that stuck with me was when he commented on the fitting together of the body of Christ.  paul writes this in verses 4-6 (the MSG) 

• In this way we are like the various parts of a human body.  Each part gets its meaning from the body as a whole, not the other way around.  The body we're talking about is Christ's body of chosen people.  Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of his body.  But as a chopped-off finger or cut-off toe we wouldn't amount to much, would we?  So just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren't.

aaron and i had lunch on wed.  i told him about where i was with church and ministry and all that stuff.  kind of in a place of seeking/learning/resting...but what aaron had to offer on this passage encouraged me to maybe move along a little.  i would hate to be a toe and not be functioning as a toe.  to just be cut off, not being a toe...that would suck!  and it wouldn't only suck for me...according to aaron and..well, paul...it wouldn't be good for the body to not have a toe, either.  

thanks aaron...very cool to see leadership go back and forth!