Juggling

During the Compassion Journey I have gotten to experience something that I never have in ministry. The feeling of being ahead. Way ahead! I have a month of teachings and small group lessons planned out, written, and most of the small groups filmed. I have never been this far ahead on anything. I actually am having a hard time keeping them all straight though.

I was counseling someone last week and could not help but talk about the scripture that I was teaching last weekend because it was on my mind. In small group, because the CJ is built on a continuum of discussions, I have a hard time not moving on to the next discussion; especially when I feel like we have broken through to the next level. For the first three weeks we are discussing personal approaches to compassion. The second three weeks is a discussion of our corporate approach to compassion.

Last night in small group, we started turning that corner in our discussion from me to we. Having already written and filmed that discussion I had to work hard not to go there, but instead to make sure we spent adequate time wrestling with our responsibility in compassion I had to put it off.

The problem is with a brain like mine it is dangerous to put so much up there. I am likely to lose it.

--Ben