It seems when it rains it pours. Most people I talk to about their job seem to say something along these lines. They don’t have a ton to do and then all of a sudden everything breaks loose and they can’t possibly be expected to keep up with their workload.
As an aside, it’s an interesting thing to think about all of the billions of things that have gone on today. Each one of the 7.8 billion people performing multiple tasks. What if every single person alive didn’t do anything for one day? Would the world fall apart? If no one did anything but sit on their bed all day?
I digress. It seems for me, I often get to a point where I have so much to do that I stop thinking about how I’m going to get it all done. I think about how the world is still going to rotate the same way it always has come next week at this time, so why should I stress over it? That doesn’t actually help the stress, but it does help the mindset.
Right now, I’m thinking a lot about a youth retreat I’m speaking at this weekend. I have barely one of four sessions figured out for what I’m going to teach. I have an idea for the others, but I don’t know how I’m going to fill 20 minutes for each of them or what direction to go in.
I want to teach well and point the kids in the right direction, but at the end of the day I have to realize that it’s not about me. And it’s not even about these kids. It’s about God, and as long as I’m being faithful to pursue Him, I don’t have anything to worry about.