Seananigans

Decisions define our life. Every day we are confronted with a multitude of choices to make. All the time, choice after choice after choice. School, work, social events, who your friends are, what to eat for breakfast / lunch / dinner, what your going to do in the afternoon, what you are going to do at night. An endless assault it seems. And in this mess of different things we have to / want to do, our brains are left seeking to try and sort out all that is going on, and to CHOOSE what we hope is the right path.

This summer I have had a lot of choices and a lot of challenges. Monday-Wednesday-Friday work at Calvary Kids Child Development Center (for kids who can't read good?). Dealing with 20 kids between the ages of 5-12 - not easy. Especially for 8 HOURS a day! Check them in, see how they are doing, setting them up with activities and things to do -> snack time, recess, lunch time, movie time, game time, field trips. Then there are the hundred of other things to deal with - scraps, cuts, runny noses, bloddy noses, fighting, biting, scratching, cussing, hair-pulling, knife throwing (just kidding - i hope), tattle-telling, cheating, and the list can go on.

Then my other job in Wimberley working for my uncle on Tuesday and Thursday - having to be in Wimberley all day working under the sun for 8-9 hours. Being soley in charge of mowing, blowing, fixing sprinklers, upkeeping bathrooms, cleaning out hundreds of pounds of water plants in streams, watering 5 acres of grass with 6 water hoses on at once, to name amoung countless of other things.

I say none of this to brag, because I KNOW that both of these jobs were given to me by the grace of God. This is also for me to understand and sort all these things out.

This also includes getting back into school, paying off $900 in parking tickets(i finished!), moving into a one-bedroom apartment in 12 days, having to get all of my furniture and appliances, trying to balance relationships, suffering through regret of past mistakes, getting very involved with a local church, trying to decide if the campus Christian organization I have been involved with for the last 3 years is something that I should stay involved in (CRU) - if it will be were I invest my time and energy into (will it be fruitful?). And I am sure more things could be entailed.

So there is this assault of choices that are laid onto me, but not just me, mankind. And where does this leave us? How are we imperfect people with an inclination to sin, supposed to deal with all of this? Just think about it. I'm not providing the answer.

How do you deal with the problems that you are presented with? That is the question. Everyone has decisions and challenges they face. How do you face them?

Prayer? Passive-Aggressively? Directly? Avoid them? I don't know. How is mankind (me and you) supposed to deal with all these problems? I haven't even mentioned the inumerable things going on around us - war, famine, immigration, education, Israel, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, AIDS, Avian Flu Virus, Nukes.

Ahh, there is so much! How are we to decipher all this with our own problems? How are we to be happy when there is all of this? How are we to be purposeful (find out purpose) when there are a million pathways and a million problems.

Decisions...