Random thoughts...

It is memorial day and Jane is cooking us breakfast on the grill. Looks like it's going to be a beautiful day. I am t-i-r-e-d though. I was pretty well worn out after yesterday morning, then we stayed up and watch Castaway until 2 am (that Tom Hanks movie where he's stranded on a desert island). So... just some thoughts:

• I should not have meetings right before or after church on Sundays. Actually, I really hate it when people want to talk "business" before church especially - because my mind is full at that point and trying to put something else in means something needs to be transferred out. After church I am emotionally spent and my thinking is not clear. Yesterday I was impatient and just didn't deal the best with some situations/people. Our church "back home" used to (and still does) have their council meetings on Sunday night. I never liked it then, and now, as a pastor, that seems just cruel. Maybe Sunday's take more out of me than other pastors, but I don't think it's in anybody's best interest.
  
• I need an attitude adjustment. I am a little too far on the 'task-oriented' side anyway, but trying to deal with non-task-oriented people lately is wearing on me. And it's not their fault. It's mine. Or... even if they are at fault, it's not their responsibility to deal with it. It's mine.
  
• We're going to Anderson today to have a memorial day party at the mercy house with son Isaac. That should be fun. Nice to have something to do.
• I remember when we used to do stuff with the people at our church. I feel really disconnected from everyone anymore. I don't think it's even anything that has happened recently so much, but rather a series of events that began a few years ago, and just little by little things keep happening that, unless something changes... I dunno.
• I watched perhaps my first Indy car race yesterday (The Indy 500). Earlier this year I watched a Nascar race. Yesterday's race was kinda fun even. Oh, I didn't watch the whole thing, but enough of it. Couldn't tell you who won, but I've always kinda had a thing for his wife.
• For anyone who thinks being a pastor is a prestigious job - you could have held the ladder for me as I cleaned the bird crap off the cross yesterday. We have a cross above our entryway door that has a neon-like bulb behind it, and birds must like the warmth or something, because they like to sit on the cross and crap right down the entryway wall. I dug out the old owl I used to hang up there when we had problems before.
• No preaching the the next two Sundays. But I'll be working all this week, and part of next. Believe me, there is plenty to do. There is always plenty to do. I have so many stinkin' to-do lists that I think I need a list to keep track of my lists. Not that everybody doesn't have plenty to do, but, you know... I'm just sayin'.
• My coffee cup is empty. Must be God's way of telling me I should end this post, huh?