A little thought of mine....

It's been a while since I've blogged, I thought it was time to write my next installment :-)

Since I last spoke.........

I have started a new job at a small optometrist (specialising in Behavioral Optometry), working as a personal assistant/receptionist/optical dispenser-in-training, and I am loving it! There is so much to learn, and I am eager to perfect my role. 

One of the many things I have been asked to do, is to get into contact with a variety of primary schools here on the Coast, to promote a free-of-charge workshop for staff. This workshop is designed to educate teachers on visually-related learning disorders, what symptoms to look for in their students, and how to treat those who appear to be struggling in the classroom. I have had to do my own research for this task, educating myself more and more on what our services provide. It has taken me many hours of gathering and processing information, formatting it into brochures, flyers and information packs. I did not need to do so much research on the topic, as I already knew the basic message I was to convey. But I found myself needing to learn more and more, just incase someone asked a hard question. I had edited and re-edited flyers to make them more appealing to my audience. It came to the point where I had ALL this information – so much literature and perfected reading material, but I had not yet made one phone call to a school!

This experience, although humorous to myself for understanding my minute phobias of public speaking, got me thinking about the evangelical side to our Christianity. We spend so much time in our lives perfecting how we will PRESENT the message of Christ; metaphorically speaking - we edit and re-edit brochures and flyers, combing through minute details in the message we want to bring. We educate ourselves more and more on the product we are to sell, agreeing with various methods in which to promote the sale. Some people even go to conferences to be re-inspired about the message they condone! It is so built into our system that if anyone were to ask us if we were confident with our message, we would resound yes!

But at what point do we make that first ‘phone call’, to START the process of ‘promotion’ to the unsuspecting public?

And why does it scare us so to take that first step in outworking our faith? Fear of failure? Fear of being turned down? Fear of sounding inexperienced and unequipped? Surely the latter is a complete lie – you are MORE than equipped.

Whatever it is, it would be wise to stop and think ‘Am I simply procrastinating this?’ What would it take to motivate you to start?

Food for thought!

P.S. Yes, I have started making phone calls to primary schools, and have since scheduled multiple workshops :-)