Day 85 and what I learned from a missed flight!

Day 85 and you may think I've been quiet because I've been on my United flight to Minneapolis and back.
The last you heard from me (Day 82 blog) was that a United operator was now talking to me and you would assume he was fixing it!
Not so.
After 3 hours on the phone, United could not get me another flight to MN ....even although they did get two of my colleagues.
But then .....it was only a flight and a meeting!

So I slept in my own bed the last 2 nights .....and ....what I thought were two extra days, became two really busy days. here were two days I was going to be gone and I had set my work for such, but I found multiple things to do in those two days.
How does that happen?

......and as I thought about that I spent tonight reading a chapter a leaders group is discussion tomorrow over breakfast: "The Seduction of Success"

Boom - there's my answer to why two extra days became two busy days!

Like so many leaders, much of my identity is tied up to not resting but being busy on the next
project, the next initiative, the next thing. The subtlety of how the idol of success grabs you. Keller calls it an "achievement addict."

To some degrees I have this.
I try to justify it as the next project is for the kingdom of god, the extending of the Gospel, the Church. But when you scratch where it itches - sometimes its more to do with my own sense of achievement than the greater cause.

So, my intentional follow of Jesus day 85 - learn from what my change of plans for Days 83 and 84 have revealed of my own heart and work it through to a healthier place.