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I’m still haunted by the Beowulf paper I wrote in university. It was not my best. But it was the best I could come up with by the due date, and that was the conversation I had with my professor. She told me to turn in the best I could knowing that if I had another week of course it’d be better, and if I had another year it’d be better still.

There are things that have fixed dates. I have turned in the text of my memoir. I’m waiting for the proof to come and hoping that copies will be available for purchase within the next week or so. I am going on Easter Camp in less than two weeks. I have done a lot of work to make it happen, and I’m so grateful for all the help along the way to make it awesome. I also know if I had another week for prep, it would be even better still. There’s a lot of room to give my undiagnosed neuro-spicy brain grace for not having everything together two weeks in advance.

I also know I’ve pulled off a lot in the past two weeks. I totally hit the ground running when I landed back in Christchurch, and I’ve been ticking things off my list non-stop. I’ve also got a really long list of things to get done, and there’s miles to go before I sleep.

Fortunately, the world is not on my shoulders, and I have the ability to pause and pick up my task list tomorrow. For now, once this is posted (task list), my only other “must do” of the night is to watch one of my youth group young people get baptised at a church in town. I was invited to be a part of this celebration when her family attends another Sunday church, and I can’t tell you the joy it brings me to get to be there for her.

I didn’t get the fifty extra emails scheduled today, but, you know what, those can be sent tomorrow – and no one will know the difference. I did get a nice “productive” morning with an extra hour of sleep to help with my jet lag spending time with Jesus and a cup of coffee. I’ve been doing a creative exercise this Lent writing haikus that I send Hannah after reading the Iona Sacred Space devotion each day, so I took a little extra time enjoying that “task” this morning. My life is way better when I can be flexible between the definitions of what producing is and what fills me up when I get my priorities right.

I got the right things done today.