{"id":56,"date":"2007-03-28T20:04:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T03:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2007-03-29T19:03:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T02:03:59","slug":"56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_akXgC53bWA\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_akXgC53bWA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Ran 4 miles this morning.  Beautiful weather.<\/p>\n<p>Then over to the Center Precinct Crime Watch meeting with about 15 managers and the cops. I got to spend a lot of time with Carlos Martinez who is the manager for Kensington Station where we&#8217;re starting a massive new work.  Other managers I work with were also there.  It&#8217;s a good way to see a bunch of my partners in one whack.<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting, I got a call from Liz Pearson a partner of mine from Briarcliff Baptist Church.  We&#8217;re working together on the &#8220;Great Day of Service.&#8221;  I&#8217;m helping them focus on outreach in the community.  We also did a recon of several properties together.  I think they&#8217;re going to fit in best at Briarlake Village, just a couple of miles from their church.  I always enjoy putting a team together and getting them rolling on the Jesus highway.<\/p>\n<p>Also worked on writing newsletters.  Kathy and Ashley also helped me write some.  I&#8217;ll finish the last few tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p>Went to Azalea to help the kids.  It was their report card day.  Some I was really proud of!<\/p>\n<p>Others, not so much.  I got pretty upset with one kid who is really smart but LAZY.  He came home with 4 Fs and a D.  I did the flip out.<\/p>\n<p>Then his brothers started talking about his youngest brother and the way he&#8217;s been acting lately.  I was shocked.  He&#8217;s always super nice and respectful around me.  It was just heartbreaking to hear how he&#8217;s been acting at home&#8211;cussing out his parents, threatening to &#8220;cut them up&#8221; while they&#8217;re sleeping.  I mean he&#8217;s only in 4th grade!  I was so sad.<\/p>\n<p>Got home and talked to Kathy about it.  Decided I needed to run to help me de-stress out.  So today I ran a total of 8 miles.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still sad.<\/p>\n<p>This mission stuff is really hard on you emotionally.  If you get attached to people&#8211;like I do&#8211;it&#8217;s like my own kids failing.  I take their failures really personally.  I keep asking myself, &#8220;What else could I do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I told their older brothers that I felt responsible.  They told me, &#8220;Not your fault, Mr. Tim.  You did the best you could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My problem is just how good is &#8220;my best?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m one of those ultra Type A, high achiever, never satisfied, kinda guys.  I always feel I could have done more.. .<\/p>\n<p>Father give me peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran 4 miles this morning. Beautiful weather. Then over to the Center Precinct Crime Watch meeting with about 15 managers and the cops. I got to spend a lot of time with Carlos Martinez who is the manager for Kensington Station where we&#8217;re starting a massive new work. Other managers I work with were also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}