Troubles Sleeping

It is almost 5am and I am wide awake with so much going through my mind and I decided to go ahead and take out this time to blog before I get full swing into summer and don't have time. I have been praying for about a half an hour to 45 minutes and I just want to share with you prayer concerns as I am entering into summer here at Ceta.

-Please pray for our summer staff as they work and live with each other everyday. My roommate and I do really well but I think it is because we have our own rooms to go to and we are just really good friends but the rest of summer staff just live in a cubical with another person and it can be up to 3 others. I think we just have 2 to a room currently but as we add summer staff that can change to 3 or 4 to a room. When we room our staff we room them by department because of the hours we work and that is why the both literally work and live together. Kitchen starts as early as 5:30am and everyone else starts at 8am.

-Pray for me and all the responsibility I have this summer. I am trying to juggle a lot and that is honestly why I am having a hard time sleeping. I am thinking of everything that needs to be finished today and when I am going to do it as head cook running the meals, and training all the new people today. Please pray for me to know and figure out when to do everything at the appropriate time. I have certain things that have to be done by specific times of the day as well as some thing that need to be done by specific days. The load of responsibility this year is overwhelming for me. Please pray that I won't be a disappointment to my bosses and even those under me as I am in a leadership roll that I haven't been in before with camp.

-Pray for our staffing. We are short handed still in the kitchen. We are still short by about 5 people and summer is here. We are still waiting and praying for not just applications but also people who would be good for camp specifically.

-Pray for our new Food Service Director that is coming in tomorrow evening and will be starting on Wednesday. Pray that he will be a quick learner. I would like to go to our family reunion at the end of the month but it will depend on how everyone is doing with their new jobs and more specifically him.

-Please pray for a mission team that 2 of my friends are on that are going to India. It is a team of 9 people and they are going to be gone from June 9th through the 24th. My friends are Gwen and Jane. They are going to be going to provide training and supplies for the teachers there. They will be doing workshops and ministering to those they come into contact with through the gift the Lord has provided for them in being teachers.

-Pray for my friends Logan and Daryl-Ann as they are adjusting to life in China as missionaries (they have a blog on my list if you would like to check it out).

-Please pray for my roommate that she will be able to get settled in alright tomorrow. She is moving in tomorrow afternoon. Pray for me to readjust to having a roommate again after being on my own since last summer.

-Please be praying because there may be another person living here this summer. I will find out by tomorrow the plans for her. I have been working really hard to prepare that 3rd room for her just in case because it was more of a storage unit for me with a bed in it. There is still some work to be done but not much and can be done when she makes a decision on if she wants to live here or not.

-Please pray for my own personal time with the Lord. I am actually going to be having some time after finishing with this. This is a time of the year that is very distracting for me and I tend to struggle with balancing my life because work takes up so much time and this year it is probably going to be more than normal because of all the change/responsibility. With change comes adjustments and finding the balance of being exhausted, spending time with my roommate, going to church, work, and having that time all need to find their balance which I never seem to be able to do.

-Please pray for me and my family for safe travels. My sister and her family are leaving for Dallas on the 3rd and my mom and me (possibly dad too) are leaving for Dallas on the 5th (I will be heading to my parents after work on the 4th). We are all coming back I believe on the 7th (for sure I will be).

-Please pray for my car to be repaired quickly after I return from Dallas. I am planning to to drop it off on Sunday the 7th when I get home and the guy at the body shop said it would take 3-4 days to repair the damage. If you don't know what I am talking about there are some older posts about what happened.

-Please pray that I would walk by faith trusting the Lord that He is in control. Obviously I am struggling seeing that I am not able to sleep currently.

I am sorry if this is really long but these are all the things running through my mind and heart this morning as I prepare to go to work and minister to all that the Lord places in my path not only today but all summer. When people spend time with me I want them to walk away encouraged and getting a glimpse of Christ's love for them. I want them to have spent some time not with me but with Christ who lives in me. I desire to reflect Christ in their lives.

Well I better let yall go. May the Lord bless and keep you as you serve Him. I miss yall and love you very much!