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The Okayest Pastor's Day 1/4/25

 It's Saturday - my day off. Well lets be real it's supposed to be a day off but I rarely don't do something church related. 

As I was slowly getting myself together for the day - a rarity lately that I slept past 7:30, I was messing with the dog and taking my vitamins when my phone starts to buzz with text alerts. Apparently part of my Worship Board wanted to go through boxes before we put Christmas away tomorrow and they don't have a key to their storage unit. I'm on it. I get it I live across the street but also ugh!

So I take some stuff over to the church so I don't forget/have to do it on Sunday morning and unlock the storage room. Then it's questions about my opinions on this or that. If you've ever met me and seen the places I've lived then you know I'm not really a decorator. It's never been my thing and I don't really feel like I should acquire the skill. So I help loading up garbage and recycling bins with stuff that is just random pieces and other things that replacements have been bought so lets free up some room. I put my stuff in its respective places.

Then it's on to questions about tomorrow's potluck. Church people let potlucks be that luck. You eat what's there or you don't but just go with it. Stop trying to control them. Make or buy something that you enjoy and let it be. It really doesn't need to be this hard. This is another part of my love hate relationship with potlucks - it just shouldn't be this hard.

I've spent a good part of the afternoon adding some weather proofing around the parsonage front door because I can see daylight and feel the wind. Will need to get some silicone to fill in seams along the windows but it's a start to being a bit more energy efficient. 

And now I contemplate tomorrow's worship, think about when I want to schedule youth group later this month and tell myself I should do more than just unbox the books I got about Messy Church since I need to come up with a plan for that later in the month but ugh.

I think I'm going to take my bottle of sparkling apple cider and go watch more bad YouTube videos to just be mindless for a while. Stay warm!

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