The Minnesota State Fair started last week. The unofficial mark to the beginning of the end.
The end of the glorious season of going “up north”, going to DQ, and not going inside til neighborhood kids stop playing tag when the sun finally fades at 9:00. Biking the lakes, going without shoes and without makeup.
We estimate church attendance goes down by 30-40% in the summer and we get it. We live in a state where the only month that hasn’t had snow in recorded history is July.
People in MN play hard in the summer. There’s a concerted effort to fill up. To fill up with family time, sunshine, hide-n-seek playing, tubing, and kayaking. We do summer big.
And then all of a sudden it’s school time again and we’re all about busy and schedules and no margin. And sure, there’s a part of us that craves the order, but with it comes the stress of too much stuff and too little time.
It’s got me thinking about the rhythms of our lives.
Bill Hybels says, “As a leader, the best thing you bring to the table every day is a filled up bucket.”
As a person, the best thing you bring to the world every day [of the year!] is a filled up bucket.
So how do you do that? If you think of some the different areas of your life – spiritual, physical, relational – what rhythms do you have that keep you replenished so that you don’t just deplete, deplete, deplete, and then madly try to fill up?
