Finishing it up

I am an eternal procrastinator.  If it can be put off til tomorrow, why do it today.  I have also been told in the past that staying on task is not something I do well.  Yes, I have a bit of AD...can I have a piece of that gum.  Hey wait wasn't that a yellow banana?

With all that being said, I am a whole lot better at this then I was when I got out of college.  My maturity has definitely helped with that (no there will be no jokes about me getting old or anything.... I heard that).  I am alot better at making priority lists and finishing things in a very timely fashion.  It is so bad sometimes that I am actually becoming an overplanner.  I have Type A personality tendencies (gee thanks Pastor and Margaret and Lisa).  I definitely don't fly by the seat of my pants especially when it is important.

So... where am I going with this?  Oh yeah, finishing something.  (no I do not have a focus problem).

Today, I finished up Christmas shopping.  You feel so accomplished.  No longer do I have to fret about what I am getting people.  No longer do I have to wonder what store would have ____.  Of course the other side of this, now I have to wrap it all.  OH MAN!!  So maybe I am not done yet.

Isn't life like this sometimes.  We get so excited when we are finished with something...  when something is completed andI out of our way only to realize that there is another step we did not think of.  Then there comes to the part of me that goes back to my journey I am on.  How has my thoughts of "just be-ing" changed the way I did this little task?

I am not one that really stresses over the process of shopping.  I am not sure "being" really goes in to the thrill of the shopping.  I am not sure there really is a thrill more of just a knowing that it has to get done.  So, perhaps this is one of those "doing" things that goes with being?  It is not a bad thing, unless you stress about it endlessly.

So, before I head off to the post office to mail off packages, and start the eternal wrapping process, I think perhaps I need to spend some time remember the joy and peace that comes with seeing a task completed.  My prayers go in to each gift.

I wish all tasks were this fun to complete as Christmas shopping.  I still have 3 knitting projects to finish.  One will definitely be a New Year's gift but that is ok.

AMEN