Friday, February 17, 2006

Some time has passed

Well its been a while since I’ve written on this old thing and I’m sure that very few people check it these days. I have been (and still am) in the middle of the busiest time I have ever experienced in my life to this point. Between school, church, work, getting married in three months, traveling, speaking and the little time I have for sleep my life is about as jam-packed as it can get.

I’ve been saying throughout the duration of this time that it is rather amazing to me that I haven’t gotten sick yet. Usually my pattern is: Push till you can’t push anymore and then get sick for a week or two… repeat. Well, I’m finally sick. Yee Haw, with a project or two overdue and several more on the horizon.

And its funny how I’m so overwhelmed with speaking engagements, youth group, Christian college and the like yet I seem to find it difficult to remember to fit in my own time with God. I’m so busy preparing to aid others into a better relationship with the creator that I neglect the most important thing in my life. Isn’t that nuts? I really need to take care of my prayer life before this gets out of hand.



I’m so run down right now, this is the first weekend in while that I get to sleep in my own bed. 2 weeks ago I spoke at a men’s retreat in L’Etete. That is a very small town in the southern part of New Brunswick. It was a good time, but carried along with it stresses of its own. Then last weekend my good friend James and I were promoting Maritime Christian College in Ontario where I ended up speaking 3 times between the camp and preaching at Keele Street Christian in Toronto. www.keelestreet.ca It was fun, and by and large successful. But everything that James and I attempted in the city didn’t pan out at all. Then our flight back home was delayed for 20 minutes and then cancelled altogether because of a snow storm in the Maritimes. We ended up getting to Hamilton the next day in the afternoon and made it home in time for me to go to a meeting. I’m still trying to recover but when you’re tired, sick, and a little grumpy it makes things tough. I’ll be ok once I get my overdue crap finished. I should likely get at it instead of talking to you fine people. If you have read this in its entirety then you are likely procrastinating too. Either that or you really like to read about nothing. Whichever you are, get back to work and have a good one eh!


Later on I throw the list of things that went wrong on the trip to Ontario. I think there are 27 things.

5 comments:

John MacDonald said...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH man that day was just not your day man. I could not stop laughing though so it turned out good...for me...
Man I DO have too much time on my hands.

TTFn

John MacDonald said...

Oh could I have the pics from Winter Rally and T.O. that you and/or James took??? You know where to find me.

Katherine Karen said...

I have one of these! Only due to past experience, I now keep mine traditional, pen & paper. I usually tell everyone that matters, and cares what goes in my journal/blog anyway, but a definite kudos to you - I appreciate all you have done, are doing, and will do. :) and that Lookadoo book is really something else.

27. i hate 27.
i like green
and 33...
but i loathe rhyming.

cheerio; <3

Sara said...

Ok, so I am procrastinating, you're right. But good points about ministry brought up in this blog. I can relate to the push until you get sick and repeat pattern. One of the things that I will hopefully learn, sooner rather than later, is that if I'm not spiritually healthy it's going to affect my ministry. If God is not a daily part of my life, how am I supposed to tell others to make him a part of their life? Or will I even know how. And yes my friend, there is power in prayer. If God can take someone as untlented as I am and use me for minisrty, he can use anyone, but he has to be a part of it. I can do nothing without him. And everything is empty without him in it.

Ben said...

thanks shawn