The Pressure of Pressure

I love church. I really do. However, some days it is just more difficult to get out of bed. Today was such a day. I could not identify the reason at first, but then it dawned on me. Another work week was coming, and I did not feel prepared. The mounds of files were beginning to accumulate. Not only were the mounds of files beginning to accumulate, but the tyrannical procession of "after the case is over paperwork" that tends to flow from the courts that needed to be filed in those files was overwhelming my mounds of file piles like a tsunami. I had (have) today to deal with it. Yes, part of the way I am dealing with it is to blog about it so I don't feel like I am so alone in dealing with this.

Emotion is so fickle, and yet it can pickle you in a jar as surely as sure can be. The fear of tackling the project subconsciously was getting to me. I did not want to tackle this. Not today. Not any day. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I am. Just like Sam was feeling the pressure of eating those green eggs and ham, I was feeling the pressure of my organizational inadequacies.

John Maxwell has said everyone can improve themselves on a scale of 1-10 by just a point or two. In the area of organization I am like a four. Rather than sink tons of effort into my four to get it to a six, I work in other areas (you all would know my gifts better than I, but I try to improve those areas). However, it must get done.

In addition to the filing that needs to happen. Last years files need to be boxed and put in storage somewhere. I also have billing to do for the City of Chewelah and the City of Kettle Falls. I have to renew my bar license sometime soon (no, not my license to drink or to go to a bar... though... oh never mind... but my ability to practice law... yes, for those of you that don't know that is a privilege and not a right and costs about $400 a year in relicensing fees... not to mention the oodles in cash that needs to be spent every three years on continuing legal education credits, some can be had for free, some are up to $500 for six credits... we need forty-five), I have to renew my legal malpractice insurance which soaks me for $700 year (I just need it for my public defense work), then there is getting the proof of all that paperwork to the courts, then of course there is some other paperwork. Uggghhhhhh!

So even though I did not go to church today I turn to me "read leather bound edition" and find...

"We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed -- always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body."

~ 2nd Corinthians 4:8-10

If you are feeling like I am today, don't give up. Tap in don't tap out and find for yourself some of that life we were talking about yesterday because it exists even in the midst of it, whatever "it" is for you.

Below is a classic from Billy Joel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyv905Q2omU