Hope you like the new feature of what I'm listening to at the moment....might be some insight to how I'm feeling.
Thursday was a fantasitic day. It was so different and great. Started off with a bang. I gotta call Thursday morning from our Small Group Pastor, Frank. There have been some things going on in our youth group at church recently and its been a little rough. But its time for a shake up. A prayer and a cry was answered Thursday when Frank called and asked if I was still interested in helping out the youth group. I said "sure...yeah." So then he asked if becoming the new Student Pastor at New Life Fellowship would be suffient.....wow...I was like "uhhh....heck yeah!" See, actually I was offered this position before, but I said no. I said that I'd rather just be there as an advisor to help out. God has really been doing some work in me the last few weeks. I've decided that I'm gonna stop running from what God has called me to do....ministry. For those that don't know, I spent 6 years of my life as a youth pastor. I started when I was 18 here in knoxville and continued to Texas and then on to Phoenix AZ where it ended, amongst other things. I haven't been in ministry since then. I've been more concerned with running from what God had called me for. When I was 18, I heard his call, and I answered yes to it. Once you say yes to God, he gets what he needs out of you no matter what your plans are. Proverbs 16: 9...."In his heart a man plans his course, but God determines his steps." Yip. I spent too much time being Jonah. So here I am in Nineveh. I'm excited....I'm scared....but I'm totally confident. It feels good to be back in God's service. After this great news, I headed down to Lee U to see Brit. What a great time. She's so amazing. We spent a lot of time just hanging outside on the lawn enjoying each other and the beautiful weather. I was there till about 1 am and just had a blast. I got to meet all of her friends which I found to be fun and interesting. Hey Sarah....is it ok if I touch Brit every now and then? haha Good times. I look forward to hopefully developing friendships with them as well as Brit getting to know my friends. It'll be great. So anywho, it was just a great experience. We got to pray together, which was absolutley awesome. Things are moving, God is moving. I'm looking forward to the next time I get to see her smiling face and her beautiful blue eyes looking into mine. Its sick...I know...leave me alone. So this Sunday, me, Billy, my brother, Matt, Brit, and hopefully lots of her friends are going out to the Fathom in Chatt to check out Disciple play another rocking show. I gave Brit a copy of some of their songs and she loved it....thats awesome and means a lot that she likes them. I'm so looking forward to creating some positive energy and getting some MAJOR Jesus on that night. They rock my socks off! I'll keep you posted. Glory to God for blessing me beyond belief. I'm thankful, hopeful, and in state of bliss...all honor to God.
J, it's not sick... lol... it's great. It really helped my day today to read this and see that your life seems to be so great right now, and things seem to falling into place for you... We all go through tough times and sometimes more than others but it's comforting to know that it won't always be that way. And it's comforting to know that there are those there who will be there backing us no matter what difficulties we go through. It really put a smile in my heart to read this, I could picture you and Brit happy looking into each others eyes and I remembered how it feels when me and Jonathan do that, and it made me smile. Great Blog my nizzle...
