This blog may seem like venting, and to be fair, it probably is. I'm just having a rough morning, and I guess I should have expected it. What I mean is that it is generally quite crazy when I return from a vacation. I come back to the usual piles of mail, pages of emails, a load of phone messages to answer, and the normal work that I have to prepare and get done on any given week. Today was no different in many respects, and I was prepared for that. What I was not prepared for was that one of the phone messages was left the day I departed for vacation, asking for a letter of recommendation that week. The problem is that I was gone from the day the person left it, until 10 days later. Oops. I guess it will get to them as soon as it gets to them.
As I began drafting that letter, I hear a voice in the hallway, "Hello? (louder) HELLO?" I went out of the office to inquire as to who was shouting in the hallway at 830 in the morning. It was a technician from the company who we gave the bid to for installing our new air conditioning in the two offices. I had NO idea that he was coming to install today. Then, he proceeds to ask me all kinds of questions about the installation that I had no clue how to answer. Of course none of the trustees who set this all up were available today to answer the questions. Communication anyone????
I have a wedding on Saturday, and it is Thursday. The couple forgot I was on vacation I guess, because I am told one of them showed up the other day and got all bug-eyed when told I was on vacation, until they were told that I would be back on Wed night.
Sometimes I think that it is totally not worth going on vacation, because even just one week of being gone and out of the loop presents an enormity of issues and problems.
Then again, we pastors need time away just like any other person. I just strongly dislike coming back to what I would consider a mess!
It is at such times that I am thankful that I have peace with God in Christ Jesus His Son. Through His death and resurrection, Jesus has restored our relationship with God, broken by our sin. I like what Paul has to say in Romans about all the "stuff" that happens in our lives, and how it doesn't matter in comparison with the love of God we have through Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I think I will go and meditate on the 23rd Psalm for a while to calm my troubled spirit.
Thanks for reading, and may God bring some peace and order into your stormy and chaotic days!
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