Fresh Priorities
Almost two years ago, I posted about priorities. I had spent the summer working for the Baptist Union of Scotland Youth, and as part of my review, I mentioned that I wanted to think about my priorities in life. Thus, I wrote about them in the hope that I might stick to them.
Well, not far off two years on, I can look back at them and say that I failed miserably - perhaps because I forgot all about them. I did not spend much more time on my degree, although I did start getting better marks; I never did start playing more cricket, let alone competitively; I didn't get involved in 5-a-side football; I started to get involved in the Live@215 music cafe, but then left the church I was involved in; and didn't really leave myself a whole lot of time to relax. I did, however, get involved in more societies, and joined the Societies Committee at Sheffield Union.
All in all, my priorities didn't get prioritised - or they changed. So, two years later, I've finished my degree. Maybe it's about time I looked at them again. So, just like last time, I should start with a list of what I already do:
- Run the Baptist Union of Scotland Youth website (still);
- Run the Hoddesdon Baptist Church website (still);
- Run the most prolific feed featured on Planet JediMoose (still, with a slight change of emphasis);
- Provide advice to other people with website requirements;
- Help to lead a Lifegroup at my (new) church in Sheffield;
- Am part of one of the Training Schools run by that church;
- Am developing a new content management system for websites.
So that's what I am doing at the moment. Of those things, there are few that are going to go away. Obviously, me degree is now out of the way, and there are a couple of websites for which I am no longer responsible. I have decided I want to continue to drive forward the Baptist Union's youth website as I have quite a few ideas for it. The Hoddesdon Baptist Church website will soon not be my responsibility, partly because I will no longer have any involvement in that church, but also partly because there seems to be little desire for that site to develop, and my aim is to develop websites rather than to maintain them. My church involvement will change very slightly, but will require just as much time as it does now, just in slightly different ways. My content management system is something I have really focused upon since the turn of the year, and I am aiming to polish off a release version very shortly and then take a much slower development approach.
So, that's what I do now and how that may change over the coming period. However, there are new challenges coming my way and new challenges want to take up. So, what are they? Let's list them:
- I need to find a job. Otherwise, I will have no money and be a poor beggar, which won't make me very popular and wouldn't be a healthy lifestyle to live;
- I want to explore the possibility of becoming more involved in the Christian Socialist Movement;
- I am exploring the opportunity of joining Speak's campaigns petal;
- I am wanting to pursue something related to justice within the context of my Sheffield church - as yet unknown as I am awaiting some form of direction on this;
- I would like to learn to play the keyboard again;
- I want to at least start to get through the stacks of books I have waiting for me to read;
- I want to be left with enough time and energy to appreciate life, the world and its creator.
The last one is probably the most important, but also the hardest. Any suggestions for how to weave it in to the others?
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