Asterix's Expressions

2007 in Full Speed

Now that I have reviewed 2006, I feel that I can start talking about 2007.

Every year right around this time, all the ministries in my church start blooming, and much planning goes on faster than I can anticipate. I feel as if the train called 2007 has left the station and is picking up speed, and I'm sprinting behind the caboose shouting, "wait, wait!"

This year our church's annual family retreat is on the first weekend of August. Already, planning for it has begun. People have already asked me to take on much responsibility for planning it, responsibilities for which I can't spare the time. I'm learning to say no, but what if no one else wants to do it?

There is also this weird stress called stress about potential stress--I just used the word "stress" three times in the same sentence; my high school English teacher would not be pleased. At any rate, does anyone know what I'm talking about? I'm stressed out right now not because I have so much to do now, but because I anticipate that I will have a lot to do in the future and, as a result, be very stressed then. It's a strange sensation and type of stress, I tell ya.

Anyway, the Lord is my Shepherd, and I will lean on him for strength has we head full-speed into this new year.

posted by Asterix @ 12:30 PM