Juggling

Today in the office we were juggling a number of things: 

• This Sunday's worship
• Adding an additional copyright license
• Making plans for the board retreat and ordering needed books
• Year end financial reporting
• Payroll, which was due yesterday but can't be done until we get the payroll update from our software company (we're telling staff we're still climbing back up from the fiscal cliff)
• Remembering how to do something in PowerPoint
• Determining agenda items for Monday night's meeting
• Thinking about plans for Lent
• Working on calendar
• Discussing the reorganization of one of the boards
• Strategizing on who can lead various committees
• Convincing one of the computers to communicate with the printer
• Making plans for the winter party for our mentoring program
• Scheduling the work flow for the next few weeks
• Working on the master calendar for the year
• Strategizing on how to equip lay people to do some basic pastoral care

I told Administrative Assistant that I appreciated her good humor as we keep pulling her in a thousand different directions.  The good thing is, she likes days like this almost as much as I do.  When we go home after a day like today, we feel good about all that we are accomplishing.  It's nice.