No one serving as a soldier

gets entangled

in the concerns of civilian life:

he seeks to please

the recruiter

II Timothy 2:4

Entanglements abound in a school in the spring.  State testing absorbs a week of precious time.  Field trips and farewell plans, awards and frantic last minute curriculum jostle and battle for the few fleeting days remaining.  A constant jumble of thoughts and plans and readjustments in hopeless endless effort to keep up the pace and please everyone involved.  

Disentangle, step back and breathe.  Who do I really need to please?  Where is loyalty, the focus, on the one who brought me this job.  The one to whom I owe the fullfillment of it as a ministry.