It’s been two weeks since I’ve been 100% bivocational (two jobs: youth pastor and jr. high/hs teacher). Already, I’m starting to feel the strain from it all. I am someone who dedicates myself fully into my responsibilities, so when I’m pulled two different directions there will be a dropped ball… eventually.

For instance: Instead of taking my youth group to a workshop on student evangelism and building christian clubs at their schools, I have to be at Back to School night.

Over the next few months, I am going to need to learn to be easy on myself.  I won’t be able to do everything or I won’t be doing anything well at all. I need to stay focused on what I can do rather than what I can’t.

You may, or may not be bivocational; but you too certainly get pulled in a million directions. Work. School. Family. Friends. Aspirations. Let’s make a deal to be easy to ourselves and know that more often than not, the grace Jesus shows us is more abundant than the grace we show ourselves.

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