Procrastination

So, I guess my post is going to be the first personal/serious one. Who knows why me first but this is how it is going to be. For starters, I am very exhausted. I haven't gotten much sleep in the last week but I love it. It doesn't help that I live in a room with 3 other awesome guys and we get the chance to have pillow talk every night. So, the last two shifts I had at Upper Crust, I was completely out of it. I just could not concentrate for the life of me. I am really trying to get sleep but things keep interupting me. I also have a 5 page paper that is due tomorrow and I haven't even begun to work on it. I have to go to the library and read and then write it. I am obviously procrastinating RIGHT NOW so that I can write this post but after, i think i will go to the library to begin working on it. Our house had a meeting the other day and it was a little uncertain to say the least. We needed to figure out all of the internet cable stuff and so we did. It was successful but they are never easy and I don't really know how to confront the situation. Do we start off with prayer? I don't want to sound like the fake spiritual one, which at times I fear I am being fake, nor do I want to completely ignore God in our house. I have been wrestling with the verse Ephesians "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." I feel as though I have been so discouraging to my friends and roommates. I have begun to get a bad taste in my mouth (not literally) when I or anyone else is tearing others down. Though I know I joke a lot, I am tired of my own jokes and no longer find them funny. What is the point of me calling Matt Fitch "Stupid" if he really isn't nor is that encouraging him in any way! Something very simple I hope to continue to learn. I am blessed to be in this house, with these guys, and am loving it. May God continue to "correct, rebuke and encourage" (bible) me as I live in this house and may he do the same for you as you continue on as well. I'm out.
-Joe C.