Work went well today. Everybody was off today, with the exceptions of my boss and myself. Two co-workers were normally off today and the other one is taking a week off to be with his wife and newborn son.

I took the opportunity to catch up on a lot of stuff that needed doing. In ten hours of work I didn't take a break. I find things go better for me if I don't sit down. It was busy enough that eating was out of the question, and it doesn't hurt me to skip the occasional meal anyway.

I enjoyed catching up several things that it seems like everybody else is forgetting or ignoring. There was the pile of timbers torn from the floor of a 5' x 12' trailer currently being rebuilt. The stack of 12' x 2" x 10s" has been sitting where they were thrown a month ago and crowding out the wash area where we clean our lawn and garden equipment prior to renting it. I cut them up into smaller pieces so that they could be thrown away.

I also cut, glued together and lettered some new storage boxes and dividers for some of the party rental items we send out, as a hotel lost the original ones. I made several of these little tasks a priority today and, though I had to run to get them taken care of, it was worth the effort. The outside and inside of the business looks the better for it.

I always feel better when I get closer to getting caught up. It's too easy to let too many things that are small just mount up and become overwhelming. It's too easy to see larger priorities and ignore the lesser seeming ones until they become the priority.

It can get like that away from work too, in life. Little things I set aside or forget. Telling someone I love them. Giving someone a hug. These really aren't small things though. They just appear to be. Moments like those might be the last one I share this side of Heaven with someone. I try never to say goodbye to my mother without telling her I love her. What if I get hit by a truck? I mean, that already happened to me once, three years ago.

There are other people I say, I love you to, but not nearly all of the ones I do. Some of that is a "guy" thing. I have several male friends I love that I don't always say I love you to because, well frankly, they don't receive it well. They feel it's not necessary or that it's too mushy or "girlie." Some do though, and aren't particularly bashful about telling me they love me.

I have one friend who pretty regularly tells his guy friends that he loves them and, slowly, they have responded in kind. He won't ever have to worry about falling behind in that area, and he will probably never be overwhelmed by the notion that he should have said more to reassure anyone that they were held fondly in his heart and appreciated by him.

There should be no doubt about Jesus love for us, and He would never let a silly thing like "male pride" get in the way of telling us how amazingly much He loves us. The Bible tells us in the Book of Romans;

8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. Romans 5:8-11

Jesus has never fallen behind in the little things or the big things, and He will never be overwhelmed at the thought that He could have done more for us or said more to us.