Sucky Economy=Sucky Mood

When will the economy ever pick back up? I'm starting to wonder if it ever will. Everyone is either too afraid to spend money right now or they don't even have money to spend. So now I am having several people just move out of their rental houses, leaving me with umpteen vacancies. Usually having a few vacancies is ok. It's no big deal to spend the money redoing them when they are rented within a week of becoming empty. Now, however, we spend all the money to redo a house and it sits there, empty for three months. And frankly, it's got me down in the dumps and makes me feel like I'm not doing my job adequately-which makes me feel like crap. I am coming to realize, though, that if I just hand all of this crap over to God, he will take care of it and I will feel a whole lot better. It's the same situation going on in our church right now. For those that don't know us personally, we have been struggling at church now for the past year and a half and with that, staff members resigned or were asked to leave. Last month, our preacher of 16 years resigned. Slowly but surely, all of our pastoral staff and worship leaders have left-and that came to a close Wednesday night when our Student Pastor resigned. A very wise man said to me Wednesday that "God was trying to show us that if we just handed our problems to Him, He would take care of them. But instead, we try to put blame on other people and all sorts of other things, avoiding the problems all together. God was showing us that our church needed to be led by Him, not our staff members. When we apparently missed that memo, God decided to take EVERYONE away to show that He was in control and that if we would just hand all of it over to Him, He would take care of it." So that's what I'm going to try my best to do from now on.