M stands for meeting

They said I needed an new alternator for my truck. Since I don't know jack squat about repairing a truck, I gave them $355 to fix it. So this morning, I picked it up; and it works. Wish I still had my $355 bucks, though.

My wife and kids went to West Point Lake to ski with an old YL club kid from LaGrange...she has a boat; obviously. Meanwhile, I went to three meetings. After the third one finished about 4pm, I decided, that M doesn't stand for ministry, it stands for meeting.

That's about all I have done lately. Meet this person to plan this. Meet with this person to ask them to help with this. Meet with this person to organize this. Meet with another person so we can plan the meetings that will birth more meetings. I sometimes think that if it wasn't for all the meetings, I might be able to do some ministry, which is why I jumped into all this in the first place twelve years ago.

I am coming to understand that perhaps the meetings are ministry. Instead of looking at them as obstacles keeping me from ministry, perhaps they are the very ministry, in an odd way, that the Lord is putting before me. Since I tend to be so set in my ways and my way of thinking, perhaps I should be a little more open to where Jesus wants me to be, instead of where I think I need to be.

I read this in Acts tonight:

"And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them." Acts 16:6-10

So, I am trying to be aware that ministry may not always happen in the shape and form that I want it to. Perhaps it comes in other ways. Perhaps it comes disguised as a meeting. Ehh??