Faith: Frustration to Blessing

I am blessed to live in an age with a snooze button. A button that, this morning, I noticed most at the point I could no longer use it, because I had to get up.

I am blessed that getting up is so difficult, even psychologically painful, because it means I have a warm comfortable bed to rest in and have been blessed with the ability to sleep deeply through the night.

I am blessed to have a reason to get up. It means I have to workout, using a program I am blessed to have, before getting ready for work to go to a job, which I am also blessed to have.

I am blessed come into an avalanche of e-mail and double booked meetings until 5 o'clock, as it means there is value in what I do and people would like my input. I am also blessed to have the ability to reject some of those meetings to free up my day a little, with no significant negative consequence.

I am blessed that in those gaps I can contact my accountability partners, catch up on a few e-mails, eat lunch and write this blog. I am blessed to live in a day of text, so those partners who are dodging my phone calls can get back to me when they are ready. I am blessed to have the capability to answer e-mails, which might have been better sent to someone else.

I am blessed to have a personnel meeting tonight, to do important and valuable work for the church. I am blessed that this work is challenging, as it is in that struggle, value is found. If it was easy, it wouldn't matter. I am blessed to have the ability to be there in ways not everyone can.

I am blessed to have a family which both understands the importance of my work, but also misses me in my absence. That if I had to miss dinner, which has happened before, they would want me there.

I am blessed to have friends that, when I am frustrated about a busy day, a crazy schedule, disappointment in other people bring me back to Earth so I can see all the good. Recognize that faithfulness and frustration do not belong together.

Have faith.