Abiding in Christ Each Day

In addition to being a born-again Christian, I am a small business owner. I love my work on some days, but all the difficulties with clients ultimately funnel back the top, ME. In fact, The Lord has blessed me with so many clients, I don't know what to do.

We are hiring again, but that is no sure answer. In my industry nobody comes trained perfectly, you need to get on-the-job training. So it is hard to tell if the new person will help or not. Then if they are a good employee, how long will it be until they are helping to reduce the work-load on other employees instead of costing us time in training and assistance.

I have prayed about hiring and I am trying to fill the position with a good Christian team member, but that hasn't insured a perfect process in the past. In the meantime, I am falling further and further behind and new business keeps coming in. Since the position I am hiring for will stretch budgets pretty thin, I have to continue to take the new business. In the meantime, I am working about 50 or so hours per week in addition to my church groups and family responsibility.

To wrap up this long...long story I feel like I am stretched too thin and as a result I get frustrated, irritated, and short with people. I find I spend a good bit of time at work complaining rather than focusing and plowing through the next project. I tried to pray at lunch time today and did spend 15 minutes of my lunch in prayer, but my afternoon was no better than my morning.

Anyway, it is easy to see why I keep bouncing around in my faith to high points and low points since I continuously allow myself to get dragged down by the worries of this world. The best times in my years since becoming a Christian is when I remember that nothing matters too much in this world. As long as I am doing the best I can to serve my clients and my employees, then that is all I am capable of. The Lord will take care of the rest. In the meantime, the worst that could happen is that a client could leave, I could lose an employee, or someone may go off on a yelling fit. In the end, I am still assured a spot in Heaven and what else is there to worry about. So once again I welcome Gods Glory for tomorrow and am thankful for another healthy and blessings filled day.

(Not to mention how blessed I am with a beautiful wife, a great church, and 1000 other things to be thankful for)