A Big Guy with a big heart in a big world trying to serve a Big God
Yesterday was very nice as I attended the Atlanta Braves games. They beat the Florida Marlins 5-2 on a homerun by Chipper Jones and another homerun by Andruw Jones. I sat 17 rows behind home plate and the view was amazing. It was so much fun to be at the ol' ball park. Well, Turner Field is not really that old. Anywhew...GO BRAVES!!!!
Sitting here cleaning out my office on my last day as student pastor. Really strange but that's the way it goes. I say goodbye to student ministry and hello to a new world. Thanks to my students and our adult leaders who have made my time as student pastor at Crosspointe wonderful. Fall deeply in love with God, dream big dreams, and revolutionize your world. Adios!!!
Began a good work in you is faithful to perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. In the midst of so much change in my life I have needed this verse like none other lately. I really don't know where God is taking us. Anna and I prayed last night for His wisdom. I know that I have loved my time serving in youth ministry but now it's time to move on. Maybe all I really want is this:
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I have kept my mouth shut about this for several weeks but I feel now I have to say something. During this whole saga of Pope John Paul II passing and the election of Pope Benedict the XVI I have been watching a world of people cry out for something to give them hope. I saw the looks in the eyes of mourners and those who were watching the scenes around the vcatican this last month and I saw something that as a server of God I was brokenhearted. That something was the cry for purpose, hope, reality, life. Where will this world find that hope...a man or God? What a challenge facing me as a believer in the real hope for this world...Jesus.
Well, yesterday was my last day teaching in the student ministry here at Crosspointe. It has been a tough and somewhat emotional time for me. Talk about clinging to God when you have nothing else to hold onto. Faith is a word we toss around so much and I have often in the past. But how often do we really have to live by faith and not sight. I can honestly say right now I ma having to live by faith. I want answers for things that I can't get answers for. I just keep hearing "trust me." I can only say that God is so richly in love with me and I am amazed at His grace to me in this time of my life. "Trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding and in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight."
In the midst of pollen world....It is raining in the ATL now. I just left Caribou Coffee and when I went outside my car is no longer yellow. Thank you for the rain Lord.
Interviews, Interviews, and more Interviews. Please keep praying for me in my job search. I have some good prospects but just waiting to see what happens. It's so cool seeing Anna grow and feel the baby move more and more each day. I can't wait to be a Daddy. Well, back to the job search.
