New Role at Church

Sorry I haven't posted for a few days. This crazy daylight savings time is for the birds and now we are all getting up an hour earlier and feeling tired all day because of it. Last night we tried to go to bed early... like 10:30 so we could get up earlier but I just kept laying there thinking, "it's really only 9:30 and I'm not that tired." Oh... the "problems" I have. (insert sigh here)

I have a new role at church now. Tonight was my first meeting as the congregational vice-chair person and 30 seconds after arriving I quickly put 2 and 2 together and realized that the chair wasn't going to be there and I was looked at to chair the meeting! Well now, that was an interesting experience... I hardly knew what I was talking about! We made up an agenda and went from there. Now I need to put whatever-it-was-that-we-talked-about into minutes (until we appoint a real secretary). (Really it wasn't quite as bad as I'm making it sound to be).

I always have many excuses as to why I can't do something, shouldn't be the one to have to do something, am not qualified, am too busy, it's not the right time in my life, we're gone too much on the weekends etc, etc, and etc. When they asked me to take on this new role of course my mind launched into all of the excuses, ready to pull any one of them out of my hat at the precisely needed moment to decline. I heard myself saying that I would consider it, pray about it and get back with them (who said that... was that me?). So, I did just that and guess what... my excuses just didn't fly with God! Can you believe it?!! So, I said yes to God's will and will try to leave all of the thousands of details for Him to figure out. I found this "poem" and was comforted by it. (see below) I certainly won't be a great hero of the Bible but it helps to know that I'm "probably" not the first leader who has felt a little anxious about new responsibilities or didn't feel qualified for the job. Ha.

When God Sends People...They Make Excuses:

Abraham was too old.
Moses stuttered.
Miriam was a gossip.
Jacob was a liar.
Gideon doubted.
Elijah was burned out.
First David's armor didn't fit, then he had an affair, and had someone killed.
Solomon was too rich.
Isaiah had unclean lips.
Jeremiah was too young.
Jonah didn't like the job.
Amos's only training was in the school of fig-tree pruning.
Naomi was a widow.
Peter was afraid of death.
Thomas was from Missouri (the "show-me" state)
Paul was a murderer.
Mark was rejected by Paul.
Timothy had ulcers.
Lazarus was dead.
Martha was a worry-wart....

or so they claimed, before God's Spirit empowered them to rise to the occasion and become some of the greatest heroes of our faith.