I saw a blog or tweet about "first world problems" and so I think this goes under that category! haha!
I've heard somewhere, maybe a Hindu principle, that when lots of things are breaking down something good is trying to be born.  Maybe that's way off.  However, I'm hanging onto it since our poor little VW Jetta keeps breaking, literally.  A couple weeks ago a flat tire.  Then the driver's side window button broke.  The AC hasn't worked for a year...now the passenger side window button broke off...I ask myself, can I drive around in a car with no AC and unable to put down either of the front windows?  Living in Hawaii most of the year you can get by without AC, but the summer can be very hot indeed.  Do we keep putting money into the little thing, it runs great.  And most importantly no car payment! 
In my advancing middle age I find myself needing more and more air circulation.  The rear windows can both still be put down, and on the other bright side it prevents me from eating drive through fast food!
I know this is a ridiculous, brainless post, but this is my predicament...I'm not much into "things."  I'm not one who needs the newest and nicest.  But I find myself coveting cars with all the bells and whistles, things like window buttons, radio buttons, AC, a headliner that isn't falling off...Is it worth it to invest a couple thousand into a car that seems to be crumbling but running?

Post Easter Blues and Blahs

I'm feeling so tired after Easter.  I was actually feeling tired before Easter! I'm feeling perilously close to burn out...I have just completed my first year of ministry at a new church.  While beginning a new ministry is exciting, it's also exhausting.  I'm hanging on for a couple more weeks to take a week off when some family come to visit.  Then in June I'm going to the Ghost Ranch in NM for a week long course.  I'm planning on doing some serious reflecting and resting!  I'm trying to pay attention to what I am doing and how I am spending my energy.  My challenge is that even when I recognize I'm getting pulled into the vortex of distractions, i.e. property concerns, bathroom lights, and outside user groups, I don't know quite how to disengage!  I feel like just shouting outside my office: "I just want to minister!"
It's only Tuesday after Easter, so hopefully my patience and fortitude will be renewed mid-week...

Third time's a charm!

I think this is my third time, dipping my toes into the world of blogging.  I love to write, I love words, I enjoy reading other people's blogs.  Maybe part of the challenge for me is consistency.  But I read other minister bloggers, and they process sermon material, spiritual reflections. These are all things I do almost every day and week.  They even do serious exegesis through blogging!  I've joined revgalblogpals - twice I think.  I've tried Wordpress and am now back to Blogger...so enough about past failures, or let's call them false starts.  
I think part of my hang up is  perfectionism.  I want each post to be deep, or funny, or witty, or moving or all of the above!  I have dreams of grandeur...which I can keep safely as dreams if I never blog right?? 
So here's to new starts, re-starts, continuing the journey.