I love writing. I’ve always hope that this blog would afford me an outlet for my writing but somehow I never seem to follow through. I never seem to afford the time to write. I am hoping to start using my mornings to this end. I can really waste a morning. Typically I am up about 2 hours before anyonelse or before I need to be anywhere. My typical morning is waking up and letting the dog out, making coffee, then watching something on TV that I have DVR’d. I need to keep the TV off and use that time for writing. Enough excuses lets get on to my blog post for the day.

Frantic Fridays is the day allow myself to write about anything I desire. Today I want to explore how you balance a servent life with trying to keep some time for yourself. I’ve spent most of my life mainly concerned about me. What I wanted and how to achieve it was what my life was about. I don’t think I was like obnixious about it. I was just pursing the American Dream like everyone around me. Then Jesus found me. That pretty much changed everything. I really understood the concept of giving my life to Jesus and as with everything in my life I did it with my whole self. Don’t get me wrong I have no regrets to my pursuit of being a servant. I am much happier helping other people than I ever was helping myself. Yet I feel that I’m being led to explore some other avenues of ministry right now. I by no way feel like I am being called away from Urban Missions but some additonal ministries to what I am doing. Writing is one of those additional ministries. The only problem is feel guilty writing becuase I recieve such enjoyment and if just doesn’t feel like work to me. I guess what I am struggling with right now is even if I didn’t feel like writing was a ministry for me but something that I just wanted to do for myself. Which is true I do have some ministry writing I want to do but I want to work on my cookbook, poetry, essays and many other projects that aren’t “ministry” driven, just somethings I want to write becuase I enjoy them. So how do you balance being a servant with having time for yourself.

So this will be representive of many of my blog post. My old pal Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “When we arrive at the question, the answer is always near.” So I am getting us in proximity of the answer feel free to comment or help us find it from here.