Head Above Water

I just couldn't get my head above water today at work.

I was on pace for a great day, until I did the practice run of my message for the evening at 2:00 and didn't like it. It wasn't that I thought it was a useless message, or that I hadn't prepared enough, just that when I practiced through it, I felt there was probably something more useful I could say than parts of that message.

So I put myself in a funk for the rest of the day, only had about half an hour or so of time to tweak the message before giving it (lots of meetings right before the service) and didn't have time to run through it again after making major tweaks.

Overall, I taught/spoke/preached for 35 minutes tonight. About 7-10 of those minutes were from the originally prepared sermon.

That being said, it went better than I thought it might.

Yay for the Holy Spirit.