Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Joy or the loss thereof...

This past few weeks has been a whirlwind of activity...a quick trip to Ontario, book tables, speaking for a church group, a Beth Moore conference and then the massive task of the Gallery 7 fund raising Gala. It seems that I have hardly been home...actually I have hardly been home and it has taken a toll on my kitchen, laundry and sleep patterns. After months of planning, the time came and went and it was over, the question that followed was..."How did it go?", "Are you happy with the outcome?" and other such queries....

The problem with this is that as the planner (with help of course), all I could see were the little details that could have gone smoother, the things that were overlooked or forgotten....as I debriefed I had to wonder where the excitement was? I should feel pretty good about pulling off a corporate event with very few problems however the side of me that can not fail, the (semi) perfectionist in me, allowed those doubts to temporarily steal the joy from this otherwise successful event. Thankfully it was temporary, I was able to (after some sleep) look at it objectively and enjoy all that was good about this event and not focus solely on the areas that could use some improvement. I was able to recapture some of the joy!!

That made me wonder how often do we let our emotions or others steal the joy that God intends us to have in our day to day living? How often do we overlook the successes and the victories in favour of the possibility of having done better...silly isn't it that we often allow our joy to be removed so willingly... it is worth thinking about....I pray that this week nothing is able to come between you and the joy God intends to bestow on you.

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