Daylight Savings Time can be quite perplexing. On Facebook this morning several friends commented on the fact that it threw their children and/or pets off of a much needed schedule. I don't have children (yet!) and my pet is a lazy fish. So it didn't affect me much. I was actually more worried about my roomate missing the time change and being late for work than I was for myself. So I was up at my normal time of 5-ish which today turned into 6-ish. No big deal. I went in the kitchen and made muffins for the hospitality room at church. This room is new to my church. My friend Shelley (with limited assistance and much encouragement and company from me) painted an old Sunday School room. We moved some furniture, had people sign up to bring snacks and ta-da a hospitality room was born. It's turning into a cute cozy little place for people to gather on Sunday mornings. I have big dreams of what it could expand in to someday...but for now it works for what we need. So I have now been in my office here at church for a few hours. I have gotten a lot of work done. I have also done some daydreaming. My brain is going crazy right now with ideas and things I want to do.
I may have mentioned this before, but I have this thing where often I don't see what is I see what could be. When speaking of this to friends I usually just refer to it now as "my disease". :) So sitting here in my office I look around and all of a sudden see what I want this church to be. I see very functional and practical ways that it could be organized and given a new face if only time, money, motivation and opposition were not factors. I look out the window and see the empty lot across the street and can see all my wishes of a community garden staring back at me. How cool would that be if my church bought that land and planted a community garden in the summer and had classes to teach children about growing food and how eating from a garden can be beneficial financially as well as to your health. I flip through some pictures a friend posted on Facebook this morning and can all of a sudden see this great idea I have coming into being. It's great and inspiring and motivating and EXHAUSTING! I will work on my motivation. I will work on picking through my "dreams and visions" and trying to focus on a few at a time. My Pastor told me once "do for one what you would like to do for many". He was talking about people but I think it's true for ideas. I can either do a bunch of things half way or I can focus on a just few things. I can start giving them a lot of effort and time and see them come into fruition. Then I can move on to the next few big ideas.
These are just some things rolling around in my head this morning. For now I will go sit in the hospitality room with my sweet mama. Drink coffee and eat muffins. Wait for it to be time to go upstairs and hear about this beautiful Journey to Hope we are on during the season of Lent. I will just enjoy the fact that the sun is shining, my heart is full and it is a sweet Sunday.
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