I've been feeling rather lethargic these days—a polite way of denying laziness. The more inactive I am, the more drained I feel. Instead of rotting in my patch of lethargy, I've decided to dust myself off and return to the fruit farm of productivity.
June marks the first page of my busy calendar, thanks to my extra ministry commitments. I've signed up for an intense 2-year Advanced Discipleship Training program with nine fellow church friends, hosted by our Minister. While the course will help me grow in Christ, it's also designed to train future leaders. I'm too lazy to consider myself a leader; I just excel at delegating and don’t think I’m a suitable candidate. I'm nervous about maintaining my commitment to this time-consuming and in-depth syllabus, but I'm also excited about theological concepts that will challenge me. I desperately need biblical discipline to strengthen my spiritual walk. I've also volunteered to disciple a new visitor at Church, guiding her through the 6-week Christianity Explained series. Pray that my efforts will be fruitful as I welcome my new sister into God's Kingdom.
On a culinary note, I learned how to bake lemonade scones on Saturday night and brought them to Sunday School for everyone to sample. I'll bake scones this Sunday for Australia's Biggest Morning Tea, a charity event to raise money for China and Burma.
Aside from ministry movements, weekly Bible studies, and baking experiments, I'm taking hip hop dance classes to occupy my Monday nights. It's a great opportunity to catch up with girlfriends who don’t live nearby. Geography may strain relationships, but I refuse to let postcodes steer me away from my chickadees.
The sudden urge to fill my diary with activities reflects the emptiness I've been experiencing. It's ideal to say that Christians are fulfilled by God's grace, but stuck in this hollow human shell, I sometimes stray and get stained by worldly affairs. By cramming activities and social events into my calendar, I feel a sense of control—much like how girls cut their hair after a breakup. I'm a go-getter and action-oriented; I make things happen. But at the end of the day, I know that all this is just a poor attempt to fool myself into thinking I have taken control of my life. It’s unwise to think I can use busyness to escape the truth: God is in control. He has a plan for each of us, and I trust that His plan will work out because it's perfect, just like He is.
7 comments:
Hip hops classes would be awesome.. can't wait!
I'm also trying to work out my ministry commitments. Wondering if I can pack any more in with Sunday School, leading BS & one-to-one stuff. It's exciting when there are newcomers to welcome.
I'm sure God will teach you heaps as you do the course. Pray for discipline & the meeting with the newcomer sounds like a great way to put it into practise!
Oh... & I'm planning on making scones for a women's training thing on Sunday. We'll see how they turn out!
oops I sent you the wrong scones recipe, check your email for the updated version.
hopefully my other friends are available on Monday nights.. it's my ONLY free night.
2 year Advanced Discipleship Training program! Sounds good, though I never heard anything about it, is this at our church?
It's encouraging to read you're helping someone with Christianity Explained series, I barely know any of the new visitors that come by.
It seems that people are into the whole hip hop dance classes thing, which is cool, but not really for me. Too lanky to dance! Looks like you packed yourself with stuff to do, don't somehow burn out though!
the course is at our church, Simon selected some people to do it. It starts early June.
remember our idea to target a new visitor each month and stalk, i mean get to know them? well that's what I'm doing, duh! you think our monthly meetings mean nothing? I actually execute all of our *brilliant* ideas... hehe
too lanky to dance haha you should dance and tone up so you wont be lanky anymore! just don't dance next to me, I don't want your flappy arms smacking me :p
Ahh, special peoples course! Sounds good.
Aw yeah, new visitor thing, I should really get round to doing that more. I've started coming downstairs during Hello time instead of staying upstairs so thats a step. Speaking of monthly meetings we have one coming up, wonder what *brilliant* ideas you'll come up with then?
Sure, I can tone up, but it won't help if I can't dance! No danger of my flappy arms smacking anyone then!
oh my gosh you stalk people?! scary! actually i can totally see you doing it. haha.
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