Stressing over Stress

Last week was Spring Break, and I had an awesome time. We went to the Zoo and to the beach, and pretty much had an awesome week. A great chance to de-stress.

But then it’s back to work this week, which I love, but for some reason I had a hard time this time. You see, my talk this week in our OASIS meeting on Wednesday is about stress, and strangely enough, I really stressed over putting that talk together. Today, as my day was wrapping up, I realized how much of the things I realized the Bible has to say about stress I totally messed up putting together a talk for my students about stress.

I don’t really know what I’ve learned from all this just yet. I know that I obviously don’t practice what I preach (even though I haven’t preached it yet and so I have 24 hours to get my act together). I also know that when it comes to stress, I’m a classic case, always getting upset when things don’t go my way. But I think mainly I realized that when it comes to life and all the things I talk about at church, I’m a work in progress just like everyone else. Just because I can see what the Bible says about things and have been blessed to be able to communicate that stuff to my students doesn’t mean I do it all the time. In fact, most times the lessons I teach to my kids are things that God is teaching me, and I get more from preparing those talks that my students do in hearing them.

If you would like to hear my much-stressed-over talk on stress, check out OASIS this week.