Today Was a Good Day! I Needed Today!

Today was remarkably refreshing and much needed day. And the strange part is that I didn't wake up this morning expecting today to be a good day. In general it was a pretty casual, stress free day. So I didn't even notice it was a good day until about 10 minutes ago.

As of recently I've been feeling the drain of ministry and life. The last six months have been a roller coaster ride of highs and lows of so many different kinds. And the pace of life and ministry hasn't let up at all since I became a pastor last March. Just a few days ago I was commenting to my accountability partner that I feel like I'm running more and more on empty.

Then somewhat out of the blue today appeared. I guess I should have known it was going to be a good day, but it turned out better than expected.

Rather than go into too much detail, I thought I'd just list some reasons why today was a good day.

• I attended the Spur Leadership Conference - It didn't really teach me too many completely new ideas so much as remind me of all the things I've been forgetting recently.
• I purchased my ticket for Spur Leadership Conference 2010 at 50% off
• Heard Steven Furtick preach live and left inspired to awaken the potential in those around me.
• Despite a bad case of introversion, I spoke with a couple of people at Spur Leadership.
• Kem Meyer (one of the speakers at the conference) took a picture of my right shoulder and posted it on Twitter...well she was taking a picture of General Tommy Franks and my shoulder appears in the corner. I have an immature giddiness for that kind of thing.
• I attended a Song of Solomon Conference w/Mark Driscoll
• I got some unexpected encouragement
• Through a round about way, I discovered that there are people out there, whom I respect and admire, that actually read this blog
• I got to hang out with a fun married couple...and get hyper and weird after the conference ended. I don't think I've had that much fun doing nothing in a long time
• I got to hang out with a friend who was in town for the Song of Solomon conference
• I got to shake Mark Driscoll's hand and have a brief and meaningless conversation. It was very surreal. I've spent so much time watching his sermons...for the first time when I was talking to the screen the screen talked back...and the screen to choose to talk back at the moment where I was tired, hyper, goofy, and juiced up on a MONSTER!