Hectic week

What a week last week was,  had a lot of heavy stuff to do, most of which I didn't look forward to.  On account of the different things, did not sleep well.  Hopefully, that will improve this week.  Had an executive board meeting with the fire department and had to make some diecsion on several firefighters  who are having personal problems, but because of those are in violation of department rules.  My quick guess is that I will lose two of them, and maybe all three.  If that happens, I will get a very big load of work dumped in my lap, work that needs to be done, but for which I don't have the time.  The sad part is that this firefighter didn't have to be part of the problem, but rather chose to be in my opinion.  As I look at it, I see a continued pattern of poor choices. The biggest one that I see is that he is less than honest about his actions.  Had training two nights this week, and that went well I think.  So my first fears about this did not materialize, but we still have along way to go.  Had a meeting with the Pastor on Saturday morning,  good meeting, but never like to talk to him about the church.  Just doesn't seem right for me to tell him what I feel,  but felt that it needed to be done.  I think I would rather do just about anything than that..  Sunday, our youth pastor shared about how God is leading them into another adoption, this time a little girl from SOuth America.  She has some phyiscal problems and he and the board felt that the church as a whole needed to know.  I guess because I deal in emergency service and have annual blood borne refreshers (as required by law) I didn't think it was that big a deal, but I guess for some people having a little girl who is HIV positive in the nursery and childerns church is something they will need to deal with.  I really honor Ryan and Stacey for doing that and look forward to the day she is in my sunday school class.  Have been thinking a lot about how we (Realy me) so often need to point out differences from ourselves in our description of people.  I still find myself saying that my sons are from another country and another racial group then myself.  Why should that matter?  They are all created in the image of God. He makes no such distinctions, and in fact admonishes us for doing it.  I have made it a conscience effort of late to not do anything like that.  They are people, pure and simple and unless someother description is needed for clairifaction, I will avoid using any term that would single them out for special attention, wither good or bad.   Hopefully, this week will go better, have a doctors appoint this week but other than that just go to work.  Need to get started on my year end report for the district, as several of our other firefighters who need to do reports have already submitted theirs.