Hey everyone, I'm in Montreal this week on a business trip. This is the first time I have been alone on business. Either I go with friends, coworkers, other pastors or even my wife. But not this time it's just me, my laptop, the TV and a Power Point presentation that I have to do tomorrow. I have been waiting for this for a very long time just to be on the road visiting different places. But now that I'm here I don't feel so important anymore. I feel very nervous, very insecure but most of all very lonely. I miss my kids, I miss my wife and I miss everyone at church.
The reason I miss everyone at church so much is because as of today Rob is officially on his sabbatical. Roxanne and I sat down and talked about this yesterday when I got back from my last official meeting with Rob yesterday. I felt the weight of responsibility fall on my shoulders, I felt like the shepherd watching over his flock I need to be alert on constantly vigilant because someone will try to take them or harm them. Now I know that I'm over-reacting but I just feel so responsible for everyone that comes to Bikers' Church. I think about all of them ALL the time I care for each and everyone that comes out and I'm always doing things for BC even when I'm at home relaxing. I am committed to serving God and this is His calling for me to love, take care, shepherd and protect His flock and that's what I'm going to do.
So as you sit and read this please pray for me, for the leadership team, for Bikers' Church over the next couple days, weeks and months.
Thank you
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Happy Labor Day
I hope you had an awesome long weekend. The last official long weekend of the summer. I hope you had the chance to spend some time with family and friends, spend some time outside or do some work around the house.
I went camping with my family for the last time this year. It was a lot of fun, the kids played outside ALL day and slept well ALL night. It was really great to see how much fun they were having and made me think back of when I was in school. It seems like I played so much harder, stayed out so much longer and squeezed every last drop out of the last weekend knowing I went back to school the next day. Why do we always wait until it's too late before living life to the fullest. Why do we always wait until it's too late before making a decision, try something new, make a commitment or just have fun.
That's my question for you today why do we always wait until the last minute?
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I went camping with my family for the last time this year. It was a lot of fun, the kids played outside ALL day and slept well ALL night. It was really great to see how much fun they were having and made me think back of when I was in school. It seems like I played so much harder, stayed out so much longer and squeezed every last drop out of the last weekend knowing I went back to school the next day. Why do we always wait until it's too late before living life to the fullest. Why do we always wait until it's too late before making a decision, try something new, make a commitment or just have fun.
That's my question for you today why do we always wait until the last minute?
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Hard to get back into it
Did you ever notice the longer you wait to get back into it the harder it is to actually get going. It is so much easier to just stop doing something and not think about it anymore. One of my biggest character flaws is that I like to start stuff do it for a bit and move on to something else. Just ask my wife I must have over 15 membership cards to gym, martial arts studios, health clubs, diet plans etc... I don't know why I do that but it just happens. I can go to the gym for 8 months loose tons of weight improve my cardio by 150% come back from holidays and never set foot in the gym again. This is what is happening with this blog I was doing well (sort of) decided to take the summer off and now it's killing me to keep it on track. It's not that I don't want to do it, it's just getting back into it is hard and slow. I am working hard at finishing what I start as stated in the 5 books I have on the go (none of them finished) but I have to take baby steps. My goal for September is to finish the books that I started, become consistent with posting on my blog, finish the work that I started at home and stay on track at the gym. It seems like such a huge list but really it's not that bad most of the books I only have a couple of chapters left, stuff at home is just touch ups and I now have an accountability partner (my wife who is also the finance planner) to make sure I go to the gym regularly. People call me a professional procrastinator and even though I take offense to that I will deal with them later!
If you deal with the same issues please feel free to let me know what you are doing to change these bad habits.
Later
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If you deal with the same issues please feel free to let me know what you are doing to change these bad habits.
Later
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Back to School
Well after speaking to some of the youth last week about going back to school and every one of them telling me they didn't want to go back the day has finally come. As of today most if not all schools in the area have started. I'll be honest with you, once I got to high school I loved the first week back. Now before you get all excited and call me a geek or a nerd, let me point out that I said I loved going back to school not class! I really enjoyed my time at school, I loved the friendships, I loved the idea of starting fresh, new people, new possibilities but most of all just getting back together with some of the people you didn't see during the summer.
I was never what you would call a good student, I struggled in French, English, Math and Science. However I was excellent in Gym, Shop class, Drama, Spares and Lunch! In other words I worked hard at what I wanted to do and slacked off or coasted in what I didn't want to do. Every year my parents and I would get into it, they would threaten and I would promise, they would ask even beg and plead for me to apply myself and I would assure them that I would do my best and by week 3 my best became whatever was good enough. By the end of the year I would just squeak by with a passing grade and my parents would say someday this will bite you in the butt. That used to make me so mad because what did they know about anything they were just stupid adults who don't know anything. Boy was I wrong. 20ish years later and I'm still struggling to get ahead. Because of my poor grades and my lack of commitment I have had to take equivalency tests, specialized training at night and I had to go back to school to finish some missing credits and I still have a long time to go before I can ever move up.
Do I regret my time in school, NOT AT ALL. Would I do anything differently if I could go back, FOR SURE. To go back knowing what I know now there are certain things I would change, study a little more, be a little more serious, be a little more assertive, appreciate the times with friends but most of all I would be nicer to certain people. But in general I would do it all over again almost the exact same way because if I changed anything who knows where I would be today, maybe better but I could be A LOT WORST!
Until next time
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I was never what you would call a good student, I struggled in French, English, Math and Science. However I was excellent in Gym, Shop class, Drama, Spares and Lunch! In other words I worked hard at what I wanted to do and slacked off or coasted in what I didn't want to do. Every year my parents and I would get into it, they would threaten and I would promise, they would ask even beg and plead for me to apply myself and I would assure them that I would do my best and by week 3 my best became whatever was good enough. By the end of the year I would just squeak by with a passing grade and my parents would say someday this will bite you in the butt. That used to make me so mad because what did they know about anything they were just stupid adults who don't know anything. Boy was I wrong. 20ish years later and I'm still struggling to get ahead. Because of my poor grades and my lack of commitment I have had to take equivalency tests, specialized training at night and I had to go back to school to finish some missing credits and I still have a long time to go before I can ever move up.
Do I regret my time in school, NOT AT ALL. Would I do anything differently if I could go back, FOR SURE. To go back knowing what I know now there are certain things I would change, study a little more, be a little more serious, be a little more assertive, appreciate the times with friends but most of all I would be nicer to certain people. But in general I would do it all over again almost the exact same way because if I changed anything who knows where I would be today, maybe better but I could be A LOT WORST!
Until next time
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