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Feb
04
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The past few months have been the busiest of my life so far. I've found that teetering along the fine line between exhilarating and exhausting will eventually end up being the latter. While finishing several big projects at once to pay the bills (and I'm thankful for all the work I get to do), I've also wrapped up what I feel is my best record yet. And all the while I've never been more thankful to do most of my work near my family so they don't pay the price for my overtime. But my moments of reflection (especially this one as I ride shotgun on my way to Nashville with an iPad as a WiFi hotspot), leave me full of wonder as to the benefit or detriment of such busyness.
There's surely no need for me to ramble about this topic, since most of us these days get it. Just a few thoughts:
- A variety of projects tickles my creativity
- Completing said projects stimulates my achiever strength
- I've grown simultaneously more grateful for and dependent upon God's grace
- My brain is tired and I long for a day at the beach (preferably deserted)
- My need for connectedness suffers from missing time with my friends because of work
I've read most of the same books that are supposed to teach me how to do this better, but so it goes. I am thankful for my wife who loves me and works with me in all of this, friends who encourage me, a pastor who listens and points me to the words of the God who never fails.
Have you been through a season of transition where you recognized it at the time, while you were in it and not just on the other side of it? Mine started 21 months ago. I can see neither where this road goes nor to where it leads, but with every challenge is a good measure of grace.
As we roll into Nashville, I am excited to join my fellow creative tribe at re:create conference 2013. This conference is not about blasting people with information, but connecting them to like-minded creatives for refreshment, encouragement and the diffusion of ideas… I could hardly imagine a better place to be.
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