There is nothing more therapeutic than cleaning. However, I have to be in a ‘mood’ to do it. Kind of moronic isn’t it? 🙂 After a morning of baseball (a double hitter where they won both games!) Neal and I set out to clean up our back porch. We’d just purchased a small seating area for the porch and wanted to get it put together so we could enjoy the last of the spring evenings.
But it’s like giving a mouse a cookie (reference to a popular child’s book if you have not read it you should do so), we bought the couch set and in order to put it together and clean a space for it I had to go in and clean up the garage to make way for the stuff we had on the porch. And once I began to clean up the garage Seth came out and realized he saw a few things he’d like to have in his room, so he went and had to re-organize his room to make room for the stuff from the garage. When I went back to the garage to continue cleaning I then realized that I had two boxes designated to the office that have yet to be unpacked. Which led me to cringe inside because even though we were able to afford a cheap but decent couch set I have yet to find the desk and bookshelf that I need in order to organize the office. Refusing to allow the one unorganized room in the house get me down I went back to finishing the garage and we finally finished fixing up our back yard.
🙂 Yeah!
Isn’t it easy to get off track? To be prepared and be in full focus with a task and as the task unfolds other variables come into play to throw us off balance and then suddenly we are dazed and confused trying desperately to remember the original purpose. I think that is what happened to me but slowly throughout a long period of time. Eventually everything clears and we get our footing back again. Many things were done in the interim that I began to put my hands in other ‘tasks’ but as they piled up I realized they weren’t getting done as well and with as much focus as I usually like. It’s another lesson learned for me. I can’t be the one to do all and be all.
I’ve been thinking a lot these past few days on the talks I’ll be doing at the summer conferences and I’m excited to feel the Holy Spirit working within me, spicing up the creative juices to offer a bit of myself along with His message in a way that the teens can relate and receive an important message that will remain within them for years to come. Last year I was unfocused and by the time I made it to the conferences I was disjointed and unsure of the talks I was to deliver. But this year I am back and I am ready and excited! 🙂
Blessings
Shannon