What's new

So it's been a little while since I've posted. A lot has happened since the last post. Youth Sunday was a blast, and searching for jobs has been quite a road to travel. I haven't heard anything from any of the possible options on the table, and in light of that fact I have decided to try the international scene. I sent my resume to about 40-50 Vineyard churches in and around the UK last week, and one of them got back to me the next day. So far it's only a maybe (just like the rest) however I do find myself excited over the idea of going overseas for a while.

I also have started teaching a class on Wednesday nights on Kingdom Theology (Dan Pietrini and I are teaching this class as a requirement for our Vineyard Bible Institute class). Tonight is the second class of six, and I'm pretty excited about it. I hope to figure out how to upload sound files and then add the recordings of our class on here in the future.

Along the note of VBI, I'm so close to the end and I can't wait to be done. It's been a long road, and I can see the end from here. But then today a slight curve ball came my way. I got an F on one of my essay's, and that means a re-write. At this point it's something I can't really afford to have. So all day today has been kind of a bummer because I feel so cramped for time, and now here's something else to take up a chunk of time. Long days at work are not my idea of fun. I'm sure there is a lesson in here somewhere, but I'm too shocked at the F to think about it :-)

Job searching is hard. With all the options that are on the table one could easily think that SOMETHING has to develop. And yet that has not really been the case. It's kind of a strage waiting game. Going to Kentucky would be interesting and it could play along the lines of my strengths, and yet I'd like to stay within the Vineyard cause that's where I feel most at home, and then I like the idea of going overseas and see new things and expereince a new culture...so it all is very appealing on some level, yet it seems God is using it to test me and ask "Do you still trust me even if it means waiting till you might explode with the feling that you can't wait anymore??" Trust. I'm sure there's a lesson there to, but it's kind of hard to think about and see when I'd just like to close my eyes and be two months down the road and see how everything works out. In any case I have started to plan certain events for the summer, and just trust that where ever I end up they will be OK with the fact that I have things to do back home.

In case you haven't figured out by now, my mind has been all over the mental map the last few weeks since I last posted. If it's confusing to you, trust me it's been interesting navigating life for me. The feeling of progress in one area and regress in another has been quite frustraiting. And underneath it all it comes down to trust. Trusting that I'll get through VBI and trusting that I'll end up in just the right place at the just the right time. When I entered this process a few months ago, I knew it would be a challenge, but this is a bit more than I barganed for...

In any case I know God's not done with me yet, and I'll get through it.