You're a saint
This morning's interactions with the kids were not my favourite. Theodore this year has developed the uncanny ability to make everybody yell at him, and as a three-year-old, he deploys that power every other minute. It's how we found ourselves outside, on the deck, literally and figuratively cooling down, before it was even 8 am. About an hour later, I found myself at church. A transition like that creates a little bit of emotional whiplash for me. After the surge of frustration with my kids, my eyes still feel rolly and my body a bit draggy, shot with adrenaline, and deflated from the car drive. Now I'm in a busy environment, and on top of that, it's one where I imagine people have expectations of me needing to be perfect or at least pretending, which I am not able to be or do. Oh, and I'm also presently the actual elected leader of this community. As board chair, I've helped steer our church through an incredibly tumultuous transition period this year — between losing and rehiring k…
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