Our ensemble in church was nice yesterday, we had an interesting Sunday School class, and I finished up my ten hours for the Brits and most of my grading.
Then I had a bit of a nap and went off to a meeting of the worship team, where we got the Advent and Christmas music under control.
Home, then, to do a bit more grading and then to begin the second pair of Christmas slippers while watching The IT Crowd, which is really quite funny if watched in the right spirit.
I sent a question off to SCORE, and got a response with some specific useful steps. If you have business questions, I recommend them. They have a local office, right up near where I teach, so I think I’ll stop in there today. My SCORE mentor has recommended that I do a financial forecast and then “consider adding one employee when you can project the business that will allow you to see a profit from the added production of the employee.” This seems logical to me. There’s an interactive form for the financial projection, so I can probably manage it. I hope.
My church has begun a prayer experiment, asking all members to pray for 15 minutes a day for the next twelve weeks. CD and Suwanda and I are all having big life/work change issues, so we’re going to do the experiment, focusing on that.
There are issues, I think, with prayer experiments. First, we have no reason to suppose that God participates in them, the Book of Job being the closest example and not a reassuring one. Second, it’s not possible to control the variables of how spending 15 minutes a day in serious prayerful contemplation of our needs — or the accountability of knowing we’re expected to report on the results — might affect us. The pastor specifically reminded us that prayer is not an excuse for laziness.
However, it seems to me that 12 weeks devoted to my life/work issues in some organized way would be a very good thing. I might begin 2010 with a more balanced life and healthier habits. And speaking of organized attention in 15-minute bits, this week on the HGP we repeat our shopping and freezer-filling and gift-making efforts, clean our kids’ rooms, and make a bathroom goodie basket to welcome houseguests.
Today I also need to learn more about Camtasia for the Brits. I’ve had that on my list for a while, actually, so that’ll be good. I also have class, three companies to look after, and more grading. Then rehearsal.
I’ve been thinking about making a nice bathroom goodie basket. Now that it’s been assigned by the HGP, I obviously will have to follow through. It’s like a sign from God, but not really because that would be such a waste of a communication.
And then there’s the problem of background prayer. However, I’m for prayer, always. Especially when it’s a group effort.
The amount of stuff that you get done just takes my breath away. It’s incredible. It demonstrates very clearly that doing lots of different things is more conducive to productivity than doing just one thing over and over all day long.