Life As We Know It

If this is your first time reading my blog, I encourage you to go back and read the last ones.  It will all make a lot more sense if you know all the back story. So in September of 2015 I was no longer working at the church that I had moved my newly wed wife across the country, away from all family and friends, to be a Youth Pastor.  Now, what do we do?  At this point it didn't make sense to move...there was nothing better than what we had to move for.  Paige still had a job teaching Preschool at the church (of which she is amazing at and loves to do), and there wasn't a job waiting for me somewhere else...so, we stayed put.   This was a tough time for me...in many ways.  I knew in my heart that I would be in full time ministry again at some point, but had no idea when or where or what I would even be doing.  So what do I do?  Do I wait it out?  Do I find a temporary job?  Do I find a new full time career type job?   On ...

About two years ago, I started to really struggle with doing Youth Ministry and having a passion for it. I had been doing it for a while and thought I was just going through a reevaluation time and that I could find the passion again. So through a bunch of prayer and evaluation, my wife and I felt God was asking us to stay and keep going. So we started diving into it again...but we knew things were going to be different because we were starting a family.  But then, in March of 2015, everything began to change. I had an annual performance review that had come up, and I knew in my heart what the results of this were going to be. You see, God was prepping my heart long before my meeting with my leadership. In that review were some tells of where my heart really was. God was releasing me, and it was now coming to light. That meeting with leadership was one of the most frightening, nerve racking, but yet freeing and peaceful times I have ever experienced. At that time I was able to clea...