Get a haircut, and Get a real Job......and a side of waffles please

I wonder how many times I have heard that phrase since bible School....Loyd....

No, I did not get a haircut (yet) but I sorta got a real job. As of this morning, I assumed the position of Assistant Director for Camp Wapiti. Lots of stuff happened, but not a lot of stuff happened; thats really how I feel about day 1. I don't know why that is or if that really makes sense but thats how it was. We were down at Camp, we got keys cut, we talked about stuff, I typed stuff, we did an interview, we planned stuff. So lots of stuff. But not lots of anything specific. Maybe thats it....

Director Darren is like me in a few ways and completely not like me in more ways. We both kind of think outside the box, we both share the same views on ministry and worship and church and everything, but most similar of all, at least from what I saw today, is that we both get spread real thin. Like butter on your toast if you don't wanna get fat, haha. Like there are a million boxes to sort out and its all being done at the same time or something. You know the Waffle/Spaghetti theorey for men and womens brains? Well its like we got 50 squares on the waffle and only a teaspoon of syrup to fill em all. And you can forget about whipped cream. MAYBE, just maybe there is a strawberry. Actually no, there is no strawberry at all. Thats what I saw today with Darren, and I definitely resonate with that in my life. And it SUCKS cause you know you don't have enough syrup to get that perfect syrup to waffle ratio that equals ultimate taste satisfaction...and yet you want soooo badly for the waffle to be yummy! But there simply is not enough syrup at the end of the day, so you must in the end serve a waffle that is somewhat mediocre. It wouldn't be so bad if you could just eat it yourself, cause you don't mind eating a waffle like that, but you know that there are many people eating your waffle and you want to give them the Belgain Bazooka waffle of Brilliance or something.

So that is what I saw today, and that seems to be the theme of my life of late. Although! I can definitely remember a time where there was only a few drops of syrup for the whole waffle. Years ago I would get so stressed about busyness and people pleasing...I still deal with that, but I am learning to take time to replenish the syrup stores and maybe even grow a few strawberries. That comes from time and patience and a little weeding. okay a lot of weeding. Takes love and care of self. I am learning that.

sometimes I wish I could just relate what is happening in my life without going all hardcore breakfast analogy or life lesson or anything like that. I really do. But I don't think I can. I have tried, and it just gets worse when I do. Stupid waffle head :)

Well I have one awesome road trip to post on here sometime too, not tonight. I still am taking that in kinda, it was so....you know. good. The kind of good you say when you have no words to describe just how good it was, and no amount of words could convey the nature of that goodness to another, only if they were there and shared the experience could they understand it. That kind of good.

So maybe I won't write about it :)

It was good. I'll leave it at that.

Weeding time. See ya