I am just finishing up a book that I have been reading off and on for about a year. Not necessarily because I am a slow reader, but because the material is deep and meaningful and I did not want to rush through it without being able to apply it. The book is called "Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry" by Ruth Haley Barton. I would highly recommend it to all. Near the end of the book she quotes Oscar Romero, "archbishop of San Salvador who was martyred for his outspoken advocacy for the poor." This is a powerful quote that is worth spending time meditating on:

"The kingdom [of God] is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tine fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the kingdom [of God] always lies beyond us...We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own."

I love the part of this quote that says because we cannot to everything we are free to do something very well. Often in our hectic world we are tempted with the idea that not only can we do everything, but that we should be doing everything and if we do not then we are a failure. I think the idea that we can do everything is a lie from Satan to try and keep us feeling like failures, and distract us from that which we can do and do well for God's kingdom. God did not call you and I to do everything. He is infinite and in His infinite wisdom he created us as finite beings who can be incredibly creative and productive for Him, but nevertheless have finite limits of time, space, energy, etc. So let us embrace that reality and seek to do not everything, but something very well for Him.