I think I work better under pressure. Of course, I become a raving lunatic, too. I don’t think I have procrastinated much.
I think it’s just that many of the things that I am doing will never be finished until the day they are due, anyway. For example, is a sermon ever really FINISHED? I don’t think so. I think you tweak it until the end. It’s the same with conferences or classes. You’re never really DONE preparing for them. You can’t cross it off the list until the event is over.
That’s where I’m at now. I have a lot of projects that will not be finished until the date has passed. This makes me stressed. It makes me think that I have so much to do that it becomes overwhelming. I guess I have to ignore the perfectionist in me and just roll with it as the events come and go.
Here are some things:
All day seminar tomorrow and Sunday morning…an hour from where I live.
Master’s Level seminary class all next week.
Grade tests and papers for class in Cuba and class in Mexico.
Janell’s dad drives a dump truck. Yesterday, he hit a bird…a big bird. Yep, that’s right, he hit a turkey. The thing went flying through his windshield and into the truck while he was loaded with limerock. Here are some pictures.
The good news is, her dad is okay. The turkey, on the other hand, had some fatal injuries.
Youth Ministry is a great trip. It’s a journey. It’s something that requires us to know where we are, where we want to go, and how to get there. That’s the theme of our informal youth ministry training seminar.
We’ll be in Ojo de Agua, a town a little north of here, this weekend, sharing about the great journey of youth ministry. If you think about it, please pray for us.
We had visitors this weekend, but they were gone pretty much before they got here. Two pastors from Highview Baptist came to check out some things for their upcoming mission trip here. They got in on Sunday night (Monday morning) and left today. Their group will be coming at the end of June to work with our church.
I only got to the first part of what I was going to talk about last night: Needs of adolescents. It was okay, though, because I got to leave them wanting more. Maybe they’ll come to the informal institute we’re planning on starting on April 21.
