For the “detail-challenged” like me…
For those of you who know me, you know that detail-oriented I am not. Keeping track of the details and making sure they get taken care of is usually (if I’m smart and able) someone else’s work. Yet I find when something really needs doing to press forward with ministry, I am going to do it whether or not it involves details. When it is clear that Jesus needs something to move forward and I happen to be the only able-bodied (notice I left out “minded”) person available, I am going to press forward. That is where passion comes in for me. I don’t like or manage details all that well but I refuse to let the mission Jesus has laid out for me and for Saint James be derailed because it is not in my gift-set to do it. “With my last breath and my last penny” I want to be about what Jesus wants me to be about. I can feel it burning in my soul and it won’t let go.
So when details get me down and when they seem like mere distractions, I try to remember for what purpose I am in this life and faith and to weigh if the details can wait for the “detail-gifted” and if they cannot, I can do nothing but the thing that needs doing.
