MMM Smoothie

I have recently felt like my life was thrown in a blender and now I’m trying to figure out all the ingredients. 1 of them is work, which I do every weekday 11-5 and Saturdays 11-9. It’s definitely worth it to be working, but sometimes I just want to be doing something else. I’ll get there eventually I guess. Ingredient 2 is youth group. I love hanging out with some of the older guys and gals at my youth group and leading all of them in worship. The Sr. High guys small group that I started is also going pretty well. They haven’t really opened up to sharing with everyone yet but they are a lot of fun to just hang out with. Ingredient 3 is Church. Being a key member of multiple worship teams for Sunday services is great, but it also means me being at the church by 7 for first service practice, running out of that service around 8:45 to get to third service practice, which needs to end around 9:40 because of Sunday school. By the time we lead for the third service I am extremely tired and don’t really enjoy being there anymore. On top of that, other worship leaders don’t have guitarists or percussionists and they want me to join, which for everyone else in the church is what I should do. (However, me playing would make the music a lot better in my opinion.), but I can’t be on every team, it’s just too much. I think ingredient 4 would have to be friendships and just hanging out. I try to spend as much time as I can with my close friends. My work schedule and their school/homework schedules don’t always work out, but I do my best to see Jake, Barry, Darren, Katie, Josh, and Jeremy every week. There are many more ingredients being mixed together but I’m still trying to figure them out and how predominant they are in the smoothie of my life. Music is in there, writing/reading is there, and video games are another flavor mixed in there. The great thing about it is that God is the one doing all the blending so he kind of fits into all of these aspects (when I decide that he’s allowed to join.)

On another note, I thoroughly enjoy being 21 and going to Annie Bailey’s to hang out with others of that age and older. On the non-busy nights, (non weekends) it is extremely relaxing and fun. I’m learning what kind of drinks I like and which ones I don’t enjoy which helps in me actually knowing what I’m doing at a bar and not fumbling over what exactly I want or am trying to order.