As of last Wednesday, with our first training as members of “team,” life is about to get more busy.

I’m working once again on Alpha team my Catholic parish–it’s an adult education course of sorts, where I run a small group discussion of questions and themes designed around a series of videos.

I’ve done it a few times before. I was hesitant to jump back in, but God pulled me back in in the form of a former guest at one of my tables who wanted to run a new table with me.

Alpha is a significant time commitment–at least one night a week devoted to it entirely, apart from individual preparation before that night. That’s throughout 10 weeks of the course (including two weekend sessions) and an additional 2 weeks of training.

It’s absolutely worth it, and I don’t regret doing it.

But I’m unsure how I’m going to keep up with daily blog posts, marketing my book, working on revisions, and working on translations I need to do for a nonprofit, all on top of my full-time job.

One day at at time, I guess. If I need to temporarily step away from spending as much time on my professional Facebook page, that’s probably not a bad thing.

It’s going to be an adventure. (“I’m going on an adventure!” Do you get the sense I have more Baggins than Took in me?)

I’m a little worried because I don’t generally deal well with feeling overwhelmed or having too much to do. I don’t like to feel that I’m not in control of what needs to get done.

I think that’s maybe the point. This is a chance to learn to more gracefully cede that sense of control over to God. Anyways, we will see how this goes! I’m hoping it goes well.