In preparing to take the boys camping I have been reading up online about survival techniques such as “what to do if you are lost in the woods.” Every article makes some kind of reference to staying where you are and letting others find you. You can make a signal fire, try and build a shelter, but every article I read said to stay put.

When you get disoriented your blood pressure and heart rate go up, and there is this huge urge to do something: run, hike, climb, swim!; you just want to feel like you are making some kind of progress. Most of the time people use up valuable resources, energy, and precious mental fortitude with nothing to gain from it.

Let’s face it, we all get over whelmed and turned around from time to time, and the best thing to do until we are able to get our bearings is to sit still and stay where we are. The Bible even says in Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God. . .” But it such a powerful instinct to do something.

We also live in a land where there is a constant pressure to be the best,; (in my world it’s have the largest growing church, the most baptisms, the “success story.”) So we push and push, drive and drive, and always stay on the go. I hate to be still and wait – it feels like the world passes you by and those “other guys” are getting ahead.

While you are waiting out there in the forest doing your best to suppress the desire to do something for the sake of doing something, you are also trusting that someone is coming to get you. In order to survive you have to be still and trust others. As if sitting still were not hard enough now we have to put our lives in the hands of other people.

As a leader I put my success and future in the hands of others every day. I have to trust that while I can’t see them, they are working hard to make our team successful. Also, leaders have to wait until those that follow them come along to where they are. If they go too far ahead they get lost, if they stay too close they remain at base camp forever and never move to the summit.

There are seasons of great leaps forward, and there are seasons of sitting still. So in my life right now, I am trying my best to sit still and I am waiting. Grab a log and join me, and let’s make some coffee (there I go doing something again).

Sunday begins our next round of small groups at Daybreak. This will be the second consecutive time that Kimberly and I have led a group. Last time was so much fun, we just knew we had to do it again. You never know exactly what will happen, what people will say, or how the group dynamic will be.

For this round we will be discussing Paul Little’s book Know Why You Believe. It deals with questions like, “How can you know that there is a God?,” “Did Jesus really rise from the dead?” or “Why is there pain and evil in the world?”

This afternoon Craig G. and I were able to get the playset about 90% complete! All I need to do is put the last of the guard railings on, finish the last detail stuff (hand pulls, steering wheel, etc…), and put the rest of the mulch in the box.

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The excavator came to our home this past Thursday at 7:30am and was finished in about an hour and a half. He leveled the yard and moved a tree for us. It was well worth the $150.00 for him to move the tree and for us to have a level yard. When he left I began construction on the box that will hold the mulch. I got about half finished and it began to rain. I decided to go to Lowe’s and get some sod; I figured that the rain wouldn’t hurt the grass.

It rained all day Friday and finally stopped on Saturday morning. I was able to get a load of mulch and some more sod before David R. and Craig G. came over to help. The weather held off all day and we got about half-way finished with the assembly of the playset. It rained all day Sunday so all I was able to do was take a nap. The box looks more like a mud pit than a playground. Volleyball anyone?

It rained all day Monday and today it’s beautiful with a high of 70 degrees. So maybe in the late afternoon I can get some more done. The good news is that with all the rain I was able to determine where I need to move some dirt around to fine tune the leveling.