Ever Wonder what pastors do on the day after Easter?
On Monday I slept until 10:00am (I got up at 4:00am on Sunday). By 11:00 I was headed to shop at Home Depot, just because I could. I bought a new extension hose to my powerwasher to make the roof accessable. On the way home from that shopping trip, I found myself turning into the Church parking lot, habit I guess. I went into the Worship Center and straight to the usher's station to check attendance on Easter, (we had 1,100 for those who care). Then I sat in the chairs and processed the day before. I mentally went through the whole service and tried to let everything sink in.
I got stuck on Pastor Jon's part of the message, Christ is Risen, Now What? It is easy to get caught up in the glow of the day and then have extreme let down in the days that follow, but he really made me think about the new life that Christ gave me. I had mentioned in the message about my feeling a lack of self-discipline, and as I sat there in the worship center on the day after Easter, I was overcome with the feeling that I was not that person anymore, and I asked myself how will that change me?
So I went home and crawled up on the roof and cleaned out the raingutters that were so full of stuff that I had weeds growing out of them, and I had to take the downspouts apart in order to make them work. From on top of the roof I had this thought,"Self-Discipline is in the eyes of the beholder!"
In Christ,
Paul
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Discipline truly is a journey :)