I dare you....

This past Sunday, my friends and I visited Westlink Christian Church on Maize road... and LOVED it. There was a guest speaker, Mark Gungor, who is an author and pastor from Michigan, I believe. He spoke on very interesting and abnormally dreaded topic: singleness and dating. I personally loved what he had to say. His sermon did many things:

It destroyed the unrealistic expectations that we have of dating and marriage.

It reminded us that it TRULY is okay to date, although most churches have indoctrinated the idea that we should put it off, and put it off, and put it off and pray for God to "deliver our spouse into our laps."

It realistically and practically looked at marriage and dating, while analyzing the social ideology that we must anxiously wait to date, which affects us and our future grand children.

It emphasized the importance of sexual purity before marriage.

and

It shocked me with information about happiness and how marriage wasn't made to make a person happy:: a person must be happy before they wed. If two unhappy, empty souls marry, its still the union of two unhappy, empty souls.

Listen to the message... I dare you. It has changed my thinking on dating.

http://media.westlink.org/message_series/iMarriage/IStillDo092610Gungor.mp3

Micromanage

Monday - Wake up early, do homework, read, study, meeting, go to class, read, study, Intramurals, rehearsal, study, socialize.

Tuesday - Wake up early, do homework, meeting, homework, class, read, night class, rehearsal, homework, socialize.

Wednesday - Wake up early, study, read, last minute homework, class, Meads to prepare for Bible Study, Bible Study, Rehearsal, Homework

Thursday - wake up earlier, prepare for another Bible Study, class, homework, class, homework, night class, rehearsal, homework, socialize.

Friday - wake up early, homework, class, socialize, homework, rehearsal

Saturday - wake up early, prepare for Sale Vale Panqueques, Sale Vale Panqueques, homework, socialize

Sunday - church, socialize, one on one, work, homework, cornerstone, homework.

Repeat.

A friend told me the other day that I micromanage. Not entirely sure of the meaning of that word, I searched and found this definition:

To manage, direct, or control a person, group, or system to an unnecessary level of detail or precision

Certainly I don't do this, right? WRONG.

I've realized that I am indeed a micromanager, as seen through the schedule above. Some may even say that I'm an overachiever, which when I'm honest with myself, is a pretty accurate statement.

So what am I doing to correct it? This week, I'm making a conscious effort to underachieve and do less micromanaging.

Won't you join me?