Whew…
February 27th, 2007 Posted in Shootn the Bull
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Is anyone else out there feeling overwhelmed? If not, then offer words of enlightenment. If you are, share why. Nuff said.
February 27th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
dude! what timing! i just came back on duty from my first weekend off in a month, and figured i’d be ready to face the day (and the month to come). got almost all the way through our weekly staff meeting without a problem, and then for some reason (partly because almost everyone in the room started talking at one time), i just lost it. i didnt jump up and yell “SHUT UP!!” or anything like that, it was just like, i dunno… i could hear everything, but could make out nothing, and i couldnt get out of that room fast enough. i feel much better now, but in 45 minutes i’ll have a cottage full of teenage boys all talking at once, and i’m just praying i dont get that overwhelmed feeling again. i know that isnt exactly what you were getting at, but it was timely enough for me!
February 27th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
hang in there, dean. i’ll pray for you this afternoon. my case of OW ranges in the line of how can I be an effective pastor while I’m so consumed with trying to make ends meet for my family. On top of that, all my busyness nets very little cash flow. Mucho energy for nada. Yes, there’s some whine in there.
February 27th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
AMEN JEFF!!! I feel the exact same thing. All the while I hear the Holy Ghost like a fitness trainer saying “FEELIN’ THE BURN YET?!!!” You and I both know it’s only “temporary” but how does that word line up in the scope of eternity? Weeks? Months? Years? Decades? When does it end?
Then you have the super-temporary stuff like the little tech support phone from the cable company ringing off the hook (then beeping in your ear when you answer with another caller), then the three little indians in a contest to see who can yell the loudest to win the toy they are all fighting over… then the tech network hotline text messages in the middle of it all with a service call - dangit the computer’s not booted up (when it finally does the service call has already been accepted by another tech who I know stares at his computer screen all day to hit the button immediately) AAAAAAAARGH!!!
FEEL THE BURN?!!!
February 27th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Oh I think that overwhelmed is an understatement. I had a cal 3 test at 8, a history paper due at 9:40 and a linear algebra quiz at 11. Then I had a chem 2 lab test at 1:30 and band at four.
On top of that I am trying to talk to my grandparents about how I am going to do what God wants me to do with my life, no matter the cost. And the constant conflict with satan. Its just a lot of stuff.
But the I remember when Jesus said that his yoke is easy and his burden is light. I we give everthing to him, we don’t have to worry about any of this stuff. Sometime being “overwhelmed” is just business, and I just have to remember to slow down every once and a while.
February 28th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Overwhelmed? Let’s see . . . marriage, five children, full time job, grad school. Nah — nothing stressful about that.
Have to say, though, I’ve absolutely loved finding all the Monticello blogs since getting decent internet service at home. Y’all are quite a prolific buncha bloggers.