Dealing with People and Being a Follower of Christ...

as i have mentioned before, cailyn and i just finished up building a house, which as you might guess means dealing with and interacting with a variety of different people. so, yesterday we were supposed to get th las of our work done that needed to be done by an outside source. it was heating and cooling work...

so, i met them at the house and talked through what needed to get done and then headed off to the office to get some stuff done for the day. i fully expected that when i returned home last night, things would be done and in order. well, unfortunately, when i returned home i found that one of the jobs that was supposed to be done appeared to have been "forgotten" and there was also a large gouge missing from the wall in our stairway. needless to say, it was not what i expected to find when i returned home...

so here is my dilemma...i am not good at understanding how to deal with people in situations like this, especially as a Christ follower. i want to be able to love people and to treat them as Christ would above all else, but at the same time i do desire to get the work done that needs to be done. it is just a struggle for me to figure out how to do both at the same time. it is something that i am trying to learn as i grow in my process of being a follower of Christ...

A Long Break...

it has been a number of weeks since i have last written. it has been a really crazy time ober the last few weeks. the school year has wrapped up, which brought with it a number of different events and activities that we don't usually have in a typical week.

then as soon as school was over, i began to put together thoughts and lists of things that i/we need to get done during the summer. it has taken a good amount of time to compile the list of things that need to be done and then to begin to transition into the summer mode of laying things to accomplish and then systematically working through them one at a time.

i am beginning to feel like i am in the swing of things for the summer, just in time to start taking some vacations and time off, that will no doubt mess with my routine. next week cailyn and i will be heading to southern indiana for 3 days of a campus ministers retreat and then up to my parents lake cottage for 3 or 4 days before we head back to missouri.

there are not going to be too many full weeks of work in the month of june, which means that i really need to take advantage of the time that i do have to work and to really get things accomplished.

currently i am working on reading through some books to get some thoughts together and figure out some teaching direction and some new thoughts for the upcoming year. currently, i am reading through a book called The Tangible Kingdom. it has some really good thoughts and i think it is going to get me thinking is some really great ways!