After three days of staff meetings and planning for the semester, I'm pretty wiped out. Don't get me wrong, I'm a planner - I love all things which come with a plan - but when it comes to talking through everything for the semester, I start to get pretty overwhelmed pretty quick. We've discovered on our team that we have a fairly good balance of visionaries and detail-oriented people. Being a detail-oriented person myself, I love the part where we get everything down on the calendar and I can see when and where things are happening. Then we get to vision. I am so all about keeping the big picture in mind, and I am grateful that there are members on our team who help me to do that. The thing which is hard for me is when I hear visionary ideas and take them as assignments. "Wouldn't it be cool if we could encourage our students toward servanthood by taking them along with us when we serve others?" "Let's do a bible study which encourages our women to grow into their identity as a woman of God." "Let's be memorizing verses with our students." And on and on until I have 75 new things on the schedule and my detail-ometer blows up.
The cool thing is, God is able to take care of all those details and more. As I'm trying to take Godly courage this semester, I think I'm seeing part of taking courage is giving up control. Today is the first day of classes for the students, and I want to trust that God is in control right now.
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