Deciding to Make Decisions
“Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.” - Richard Bach
One of the realties to starting a new church is the amount of decisions that need to be made. Every morning greets me with hundreds of decisions. Perhaps like you, I tend to categorize my decisions in subconscious cubbyholes of importance. I often times try to determine what is a small choice, a medium choice, and a large choice.
Small Decisions are things like what to eat for breakfast, what to read, or what to wear. Medium Decisions are things like who to spend time with, where to live, and how to spend our resources. Then the Large Decisions usually are around what God is uniquely calling us to with our marriage, our family, and ministry. For much of my life I did not allow the cubbyholes to interact with one another but I am starting to recognize the deep importance around allowing the division between the small, medium, and large decisions to fade because often times the small decisions that I make actually play a large role in helping me be able to be present when the big looming mac daddy decision comes rolling down the aisle.
So some of the small decisions that I am making right now are around simple things like when I go to bed and when I wake up. How much caffeine I consume in my day. How often I say “No” to things that I would really love to do, how much time I devote to prayer instead of working round the clock for the church as if it was dependent on me, and how I choose to be more playful instead of so structured with my kids.
All of these small decisions are actually helping me to be more of who God created me to be. These small decisions are helping to keep my life posture in a place of peace for all of the major decisions that we seem to be making every day about the inner workings of Soul City Church.
