Sleep or Family

How can it be that you can have all the energy in the world when you are moving and when you sit down you can't stay awake?  Ya that is me.  Trying my hardest to stay awake during church and nothing.  Nothing I do helps.  Church is the worst.  I hate to say it but church is the worst.  And I don't want it to be that way.

So maybe half the problem is getting to bed at an average time of 11 or later.   Wow, and I hate that.

I have noticed that there have been a few times when someone asked me how I was doing and I said that I was tired.  Working hard and was tired.

" That's dumb who cares if i am tired."   

Or my other thought was "that is kind of like the Sadducees fasting and disfiguring themselves so that everyone knew.  There they have their reward; everyone knowing."  

Am i tooting my own horn when I do that?  Saying that I am sooooo tired? I work hard and because of it I am tired.   I don't want to be like someone who wants everyone to know how great I am.  I don't want to go and solicit myself.  

The next day.  And now I find myself pushing 11 o’clock, and probably won’t get to be until 11:30.  I really do love sleep, but there are a few more things that are important than sleep.  My family is the main one.  They need my time and I want them to have some of that time.  So that pushes other fatherly matters, and late night working into the evening and night.

But they are worth it.

Wes

Life is about family

So today was a little over whelming for me.  I let the work load and other concerns over burden me.  I took my eye off the prize and stubbled a little.  But there is nothing like family and family time together that can bring you back on track.  I helped out a niece with some algebra homework tonight, helping her understand a little better and then a nephew came and we all worked on a problem together and tried to get the right answer.  Then all the family got together and we talked for a while.  During the chatter and chitter we were learning how to make butter from cream.  Yep the whole churning the cream to make butter.  And you know what, it turned out pretty good.  The time was good, I got refocused on what was important and why I do what I do, and how I can be better. And now I am ready to hit the ground running again helping others feel like they are worth a million dollars.
Family really is what it is all about.

Wes