2am Phone Call

I am a member of the leadership team at my church.  I feel privileged to be apart of this group of people.  Therefore, we meet once a month and my pastor teaches us about leadership.  However, since my pastor will now starting a church in Florida, he has decided that it is a good thing that we meet once a week until the end of the year.

We met on yesterday and after the meeting we had a "come to Jesus" meeting because October is National Clergy Appreciation Month and only 5 leaders have given gifts that have been asked.  After that we met with the CEO of the NP that I volunteer at, so I didn't get home until after 11pm.  I was so tired, but I was also a little wired, so I read my Bible and didn't fall asleep until after 1pm.

Around 2am, I received a phone call.  At first I was a little confused because I thought I was dreaming.  Then the phone rang again and I answered.  It was one of the tenants in the other building.  She was upset because she had just gotten home from grocery shopping and upon entering the floor she smelled a strong odor.  She had a person with her and the person stated that she knew the smell and that it was the smell of someone smoking crack.

I told the tenant that I would be there in a minute.

I got to the building about 10 min later to an odor in the hallway, but my nose is not very sensitive, so I could not identify the smell.  It wasn't a bad odor, it was just an odor.  I called the police because I had no other choice.

The police showed up at around 3:20am.  I was exhausted.  We walked through the building, but could not detect any smell.  He let me know that I could call the police again if there are any other reports, but there was no evidence, so there was not much that could be done.

I thanked them for their time and went back to my apartment.  I was exhausted but I couldn't immediately fall asleep.  So it was after 4am before I fell back to sleep and it was at 6:30 am that my alarm went off.  I'm exhausted.  I have to go to church tonight, but I don't know if I'm gonna make it.  I'm so tired.