R U KIDDING!
Well,
It's been one year since I started this blog thing. And like all new habits, after a couple of weeks they fall by the wayside. In this case, a year has gone by, however, as bleak as that seems, I did throw up a few posts back then, which really, truly is better than nothing.
So I here I am, marking time one year later, 5 lbs lighter (hey, it's better than 5 lbs heavier :) and I am setting off into new career directions, jobs and ministry opportunities?
SAY WHAT!?
Yup, time was up at DGBC on Feb 25th. Marked one of the most signficant periods of ministry in my life. Five years of personal and corporate spiritual growth. Growth in my family as our third baby was born. Personal growth as I was stretched spiritually, had many weaknesses exposed, and generally had to come to grips with my shortcomings as a member of the human race. Professional growth as I preached about a dozen messages, conducted my first funerals, weddings... the list of firsts is too long. I thought I might be here 20+ years, but God has different plans for us. Not completely sure what those are yet, we didn't leave exactly when and how I had planned to, but God is quickly opening all kinds of doors as fast as I can pray. Actually, we have been praying about this off and on since the late fall of 2005, but everytime I would think God wanted us to leave, I could not see what the next step was - so, as someone once told me, "if in doubt, don't". So we didn't, until late this winter when things just became very clear that God was finished with us here.
You would think that having "left the nest" without knowing where we were going twice before, we would be old hands at this particular approach to life, work and ministry. Not so. Still, incredibly stressfull. Not really sure why, God has NEVER let us down. Not even close. He doesn't even give me time to consider that as even a possibility. We are so blessed.
But in that blessing is great pain. Pain in leaving great friends. Pain in leaving behind dreams for someone else to champion. Pain in leaving a comfort zone.
So I really don't know what is next. But R U KIDDING ME? It's going to be GREAT :) !!
Don't know if I will start blogging again regularly or not. So for the record, I ran about 4 5 k's last year. The final race time was down to about 28mn. Hoping to get under 27 this summer.
posted by Blackie's Tour @ 2:21 AM
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