Sent

This week has been exhausting.
It seems like every minute has been full of running into town, taking care of administrative stuff at work, major high school drama with my youth group kids, bringing work home, meetings, planning - you name it, it happened this week.  Actually, that's not true.  I can think of several things that didn't happen this week, including sleeping in, doing laundry and an Elvis sighting.  But I did see Dan Bylsma in Starbucks last week.  Way cooler than Elvis.  Anyways...

Wednesday was my longest day up til now.  I had to be in the office at 8:30am, and was going until 10:30pm.  And it was all people-work.  So even my slightly extroverted self was looking forward to the 7pm service where I could sit down without needing to delve into someone else's life.  And it was such a gift from God.

When we were sitting down, I was saying hello to a bunch of middle school girls that were sitting near us and my small group co-leader asked me where I got my energy.  I gave some sort of slightly facetious reply about the power of Jee-sus and she told me I was in the right profession.  I giggled, because I was tired and that's about all I had in me at that point.  Worship was amazing - it's rare that I'm able to block out what's going on around me and really focus on the words of songs.  Whoops, does that make me a bad youth leader?  If so, then I'm a bad leader a lot of the time.  Then our pastor got up to speak and he was talking about the idea of being sent.  Throughout the Bible, people get sent to different places, weird places, places that they fear and places that they've never heard of.  And he challenged us to consider where God was sending us.  To our workplace?  To our family?  To a friendship?  To a ministry opportunity?

And I had a beautiful realization - I really am doing what God wants me to do.  It may make me really tired at the end of a long day, and it may suck up so many Saturdays and it may mean that I get texts at midnight or 6am, but this is where God has sent me.  And knowing that makes all the long days totally worth it.