Course Cancelled - and Why
Remember the brochure I was telling you about last week? Guess what. I’ve decided to cancel that course.
How come? While I was working on that brochure I had this niggling feeling in the back of my mind that I was going to be EVEN MORE busy next year, especially if I was going to try to keep all my commitments to current clients and friends. Then a friend came for a computer lesson the next day and we talked about having to make these hard career decisions, and how to hear God’s voice helping us make the right choices. She also mentioned several others that she had told about me, and who wanted to take private tutoring with me.
If I carried on with my course-teaching plan, I would not be able to take such one-on-one projects. I started praying more earnestly about whether to proceed with that plan or not. I held back on my advertising efforts to determine this first. Saturday morning I spread out the pros and cons as I could see them before the Lord. It didn’t take that long after that to see what would be my best course of action.
Once I made that decision, the tension just flowed out of me, and I’ve had this happy humming in my spirit. So this week I’m mainly pressing on my Christmas mailing efforts and towards the end of next week, when most of the staff go on Christmas holidays, I’ll take on a volunteer job of painting two stairwells, and a large office room for WTM. My cousin Gary has offered to come help me.
It would still be wise to train others to help me with some of my work projects, but if I can order my days’ agenda aright, I’m hoping some of my sites will start to bring me a steady income, and also the extra one-on-one freelance tutoring jobs I’ll take in the afternoons. Beyond that I’ll trust the Lord to bring in sufficient income so I can start hiring one employee at a time, and give that one some specific training to take on the work I can most easily delegate, and thus divide my load.
Otherwise, I will set aside this worry about who will look after everything if anything happens to me. The same Lord who saves us, also keeps us, and I’m convinced Jesus is coming soon to take His Bride, the Church away. There will be such pandemonium for those left behind that it will all be made ineffective anyway. I’ve decided to trust the Lord for the future and not to make myself responsible for more than He gives me.
Hey, some of the segments of my course would lend themselves to one-day seminars. I may try that, but I’ll wait until the doors seem to open naturally rather than forcing it to happen.