The tiny ministry was pressed into a small space in the back half of my independently owned insurance agency. I never intended to allow it to take up the front of my office or the front of my life.
We started with a volunteer team and donated furniture. We still have a volunteer team and some donated furniture, in addition to 20 employees and a multi-million dollar budget. That was 21 years ago. I have done lots of things wrong during my years of leadership and of serving God through ministry but I know have done at least 2 things right, they maybe the only two things, but at least there are two:.
I have shared over the past few post, a few ways I have done the learning and seeking thing. I seek outโfollowโand soak up, all the overflow that God makes available to me. I try to never miss an opportunity to glean and learn from someone who has experienced a little more, challenges me to look a little deeper, or draws me a little higher. You will never regret it. I wrote about it here. The Saturday night message was delivered by Angela Thomas.
Angela is a fellow Lifeway Author so I have had the great honor of hanging out with her a few times in a few different settings over the past couple of years. I embraced the message so deeply that I have repeated all 6 points several times my version of course without notes. Here they are, from my notes, along with my application. I would advise you to order the tape and fill up your own cup!! This statement, although certainly not a new concept, brought me down. I allow my schedule to get so crazy trying to get it all done, the things I hate and the things I love as well as things that just need to be done.
The way that Angela shared this point really sunk in for me. I have followed her advice for the past 3 weeks and have begun a new system of prioritizing and planning that has set me FREE-ER. Not completely free but I have turned a corner.
