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Sunday, July 24, 2016
Fruit of the Spirit: Developing Self-Control
ChurchProduction.com: Have you ever lost your cool? Have you ever exploded when you shouldn't have? Maybe your worship leader of a church member asked you something and you blew them off because you were in a hurry to do something else?
2 comments:
Megan Merati
said...
Well, I don't work in a church or do church productions, but I can definitely identify with taking things personally and getting frustrated during productions. Since I work in a high school, the crews I work with are sometimes made of 12-14 year olds who decided to join the production to hang out with their friends after school, and its easy to get behind schedule, not be listened to as an SM when I ask someone to do something, etc. It's also easy to blame yourself as an SM because that seems to be pretty standard in the job description, and it's definitely something I do because I'm older, I'm more experienced, I should've communicated better, etc. Sometimes I feel like no matter what I do as a stage manager, it doesn't matter because there's always a point in the production where you feel like you're getting nowhere. I've dealt with this a lot this year. I think the thing I've learned is just to trust that no matter how bad it seems and no matter how crunched we are for time, the show somehow always opens.
I can't fully relate to what Judah Thmas is taking about since I haven't been in a church production or am very religious. With that being said, helping your frustration throughly the Holy Spirit won't really be to helpful for someone like. However he does make solid point that can be translated to other spiritual methods. I have experienced I lot of frustration during my time in the theater. With directors, actors, and tech hands constantly asking for new things and thousand of questions. But I have found a solution for working in my Self-Control. One is being optimistic about how it's going to end. With things being revised and changed, it's hard to think the show will be done in time. But knowing the help that I have and the fact that we always have the show ready on time, you have to control your frustration by realizing that it will eventually get done. Also, similar to Thomas, I try and work on being more spiritual. If I work on having a positive attitude about everything, my self-control becomes exponentially better.
2 comments:
Well, I don't work in a church or do church productions, but I can definitely identify with taking things personally and getting frustrated during productions. Since I work in a high school, the crews I work with are sometimes made of 12-14 year olds who decided to join the production to hang out with their friends after school, and its easy to get behind schedule, not be listened to as an SM when I ask someone to do something, etc. It's also easy to blame yourself as an SM because that seems to be pretty standard in the job description, and it's definitely something I do because I'm older, I'm more experienced, I should've communicated better, etc. Sometimes I feel like no matter what I do as a stage manager, it doesn't matter because there's always a point in the production where you feel like you're getting nowhere. I've dealt with this a lot this year. I think the thing I've learned is just to trust that no matter how bad it seems and no matter how crunched we are for time, the show somehow always opens.
I can't fully relate to what Judah Thmas is taking about since I haven't been in a church production or am very religious. With that being said, helping your frustration throughly the Holy Spirit won't really be to helpful for someone like. However he does make solid point that can be translated to other spiritual methods. I have experienced I lot of frustration during my time in the theater. With directors, actors, and tech hands constantly asking for new things and thousand of questions. But I have found a solution for working in my Self-Control. One is being optimistic about how it's going to end. With things being revised and changed, it's hard to think the show will be done in time. But knowing the help that I have and the fact that we always have the show ready on time, you have to control your frustration by realizing that it will eventually get done. Also, similar to Thomas, I try and work on being more spiritual. If I work on having a positive attitude about everything, my self-control becomes exponentially better.
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