What is up with me…

June 8, 2009

So, been awhile since I posted much of anything.  So, here is a rough list of my life lately.

1. Just got back from a week long Summer Tour with our church’s youth choir and some other students.  It was a good week and I definitely took away some lessons that I will learn for the future, near and long range.  Highlight (?): After admonishing the students to drink water and not to dehydrate, I didn’t drink water and dehydrated.  Major face plant when I passed out.  It feels pretty foolish to be laying on the ground and having people wondering if you are dying, when the truth is you just didn’t drink enough water the day before.  (The face wounds and damaged teeth are in the picture.)

2. Great summer interns.  Excited about pouring into them.  We taught from the parables all last week and it left me very pumped up.  Excited about the weeks to come.

3. Thinking through some lessons.  I am guest speaking at a River of Life event (Dallas, GA, July 8-12) and then in Minnesota with my awesome Pyro II friends in August.  Both are awesome opportunities and God is slowly revealing to me some of the things that I am called to share.  My prayer preparation has been focused and simple: God use me to show people what You want them to know.  Going to be some challenging stuff I think.  (And my new pastor seems to be encouraging to let me travel some more to speak and share with others.)

4. Transistion is going on at the church.  Our current two pastors are down to 2 weeks left and then our new senior pastor arrives.  It is challenging for sure.  (In three years, I will have served with 5 pastors at this church).  But I do feel like we are getting to a place where God is going to show Himself to us in some major ways.  I am excited about the possibilities.

5. Heart broken for an acquiantance.  The pain he is facing and the situation he is facing is unimagineably hard and, unfortunately, it happened in a very public way both locally and via the internet.  I am committed to praying for him every day, at least twice.

6. Gearing up for an office move inside the church.  Going to do a massive book purge I think to try and gain enough to buy a Kindle.  I love me some books and learning but the space it is taking is way big.  Shrinking to a small thing I can carry around makes way more sense.  Plus going to pass on some of the books to the interns, past and present.  Share the love that I have been blessed with.

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